Joe Escalante from Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Here in Coachella, Yeah,
we've you been. Well, we aren't live here. It's Sunday night,
and I've seen a lot of bands and talk to a lot of people,
and it's great festival. It gets bigger and bigger all the time. It
might not be your cup of tea. The most reaction I get from people
when I tell them I'm at Coachella. They always tell me they would never
go to Coachella. But this year, two hundred and fifty thousand people paid
six hundred dollars or more to be out here and see all the music.
So what do they know that that you don't know? I don't know.
I think you know yourself. Some people that just can't handle it. And
if you have a certain comfort level and you're a certain age, depends on
a lot of things. I'm sixty years old, but I have some comforts
built in. I sit in a private trailer all day and watch things on
a screen until I go out and decide I want to watch something live.
I've got a place out here in the desert. My wife and I sit
in the pool until the very last minute, and then we go out there,
and the drink tickets and the food tickets. When you add it all
up, it's cheaper actually for me to go to Coachella than to stay home.
No one's given me food tickets and drink tickets and meal tickets at home.
Okay, So Coachella, Black Pink, I saw the Linda Linda's Rosalia
Blondie bad Bunny Gorillas Franka Ocean did not see because I'm here in the second
week of Coachella, where he was booted, it turns out he seems to
be a toxic narcissist. I don't even want to talk about what I've you
know, that stuff I've heard, You've read it in the in the papers.
He basically comes down to this. He makes a lot of demands.
I want this, or we're out in the middle of the desert. I'd
like an ice rink built. Yeah, if you build me an ice rink,
Or I won't play your festival because I want ice capaid skaters to what
I'm playing. Is that hard? Oh well, too bad for you?
Why don't you do it? So Coachella does it. Then, hours before
his performance, he says, man, I don't want that. I don't
like enough feeling it, So they go, Okay, I got to dismantle
it. They got to reconnect all kinds of electronics and other things that he
is comfortable with and change the whole thing. And you got to You got
very little time to do it. And when it gets fouled up, people
hate it. Then, you know, just watch the fallout of what he
says. But that's basically it. A guy said I want an ice rink.
Then he said, I don't want one, too late to actually,
you know, put on a proper production. So I think you know what
kind of person this is? Now? Who is best? Let's see?
Well, my favorite would have been Blondie. But Debbie Harry cannot sing anymore.
Okay are you hearing me? Now? If you're buying tickets for Debbie
Harry anywhere, you should understand she cannot sing. She has no voice.
All she has to do is get two backup singers to sing all the words
and then she can kind of come in. Or she can be like everybody
else at every other stage and have a play to a track with really good
vocals and sing along with that as much as you can. But evidently she
doesn't want to do that. So the result is you're watching a seventy year
old lady who cannot sing. Well, why why would you do that?
Okay, so it's on her now, you know. So I don't know.
You know, it's one of my favorite bands in the world, but
come on, do something. I don't want to hear you sing. You
know what. My wife sings your songs better than you, and she's better
looking at me, and I just I just it's just it's just awful.
It's it's the common thing to do is to go say, did you see
Blondie? Oh, they were amazing, But let's all be honest. No
one will be honest. That was awful. Okay, what does she do?
Debbie Harry? She sings. This is a band that is a vocal
oriented band. Okay, pop songs, vocal oriented. The vocals are terrible.
Okay, so let's can we stop saying it was amazing. Linda Lenda
has played, Um, they're kids, you know, what can you do?
Rosalia probably the best most talented performance of the weekend. And I haven't
seen the stuff tonight blank when eighty two is playing, but it's just a
funny punk band. Um, it's not like Rosalia. You know, and
then you know what this is. This is what Coachell has become an international
festival. And without these international bands, they could never get to two hundred
and fifty thousand. So it's internet. There's a Punjabi band, this guy
liked Legit or something. I don't remember his name, but he's fantastic.
And so many Indians came, and they have so many Koreans. You have
a lot of hip hops, a lot of hip hop fans. And then
you got some rock bands, um like Blondie, like Blink one eighty two,
so a good mix. And for six hundred dollars. Thinks that's the
cheapest ticket, Okay, Um my wife paid two hundred dollars just to see
one set by depeche Mode a few weeks ago. So this is six hundred
dollars for the entire weekend. And they got to book all these bands,
and they got to mount this festival which is flawless, a beautiful, litter
free music festival that you know, on grass, it's not on pavement.
It's it's hot, but as cools down and the sunset comes, there's no
more beautiful place anywhere on the planet than being right there at sunset at Coachella
just absolutely stunning. But yeah, you can. There's a way to do
it where you will hate your life and you will just you know, I
want to just stab yourself, um and take a chance on what's on the
other side. So, but you gotta do it right planet. Well,
um, everybody in there, Um, I think there's a lot of normal
people trying not to be normal. Um. None of it's good. Like
as far as the people walking around, I mean to me, none and
nobody's doing anything to to further humanity. It's just it's all. It's all
very self centered and narcissistic. But that's on them, doesn't have to be
you, and no one's no one's really there's no bad characters running around,
but they're not at their best. Let's just say that. Okay. So
now this is a show about movies and TV and in addition to concerts and
music and all that stuff. So let's go to the box office. The
box office this week topped out by the Super Mario Brothers. Did you see
it? I did? Okay, I teach Caddy because Saint Peter Channel in
Hawaiian Garden's Confirmation first year Confirmation, I walk into class on Monday and one
of my kids the most locals. He says, Oh, Mistersclante, you
missed a great movie. I'm like, Oh I did, Yeah, Super
Mario Brothers. What makes you think I didn't go see it? Oh?
You know, missus Escalante, we went. I thought that was weird the
first thing you said to me you missed a good movie. What do I
look like someone who doesn't like a good Super Mario Brothers movie. It was
really good this weekend still at number one, dropped off only thirty seven percent.
That is a very low drop off from the last week. Well,
I guess, I guess this is yeah, very low drop off. I'm
just gonna see that. And then number two is Evil Dead Rise from Warner
Brothers to twenty three million. Super Mario Brothers did fifty eight million, and
it's second weekend total gross four hundred and thirty four million, So that's a
job or not. MGMs Guy and Guy Ritchie's The Covenant. That's where it
win. The title of a movie is guy as the director in the name
Guy Richie's The Covenant looks really good. I'm going to go see it.
It's number three with six million. John Wick drops to number four total one
hundred and sixty eight million. A hit Air the worst title for a movie,
but it's really a great movie for a very good movie. Let's just
call it that. Doing forty one million over at from Amazon Studios but on
paid one hundred and thirty million four the movie So is Air starring Ben Affleck
and Matt Damon. Is it a hit? Let's take a break now and
we will check the traffic and we'll come back and we'll talk about whether it
is it hit? Is it worth it for Amazon to be putting these money
movies in theaters. We will talk about it. Joe Ascalante Live from Coachella.
Joe Ascolante Live from Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Yeah, we're
still talking about movies and TV. But I'm here at Coachella Day three.
Tonight I will go see Blink one eighty two. And last night the big
thing was Black Pink. Who's your favorite member of Black Pink? Mine is
Melissa. I feel like such a parer, but I know they're fun to
watch and they have a few great songs. I am sorry. Let's see,
we were talking about the Alec Baldwin case. It's being dropped. The
case against Alec Baldwin is being dropped. I mean, how long have we
been dealing with this? First it was involuntary manslaughter with the gun enhancement.
Then the new Mexico prosecutors dropped the gun enhancement. Gun enhancement was stupid.
It was an accident, yeah, but involved a gun, So you get
a five year sentence for that while they're not prosecuting any gun crimes anywhere else.
So it's really silly. That was silly. Then they say they now
have dropped. A new prosecutors came and they have now dropped it because they
said, this is what they say, have new evidence. New evidence says
that the gun was modified. It's all they say. All right, So
I think it just means that they thought it was going to be a loser
for their careers to try to put this guy in jail. They were going
to lose, and if they won, they were going to be losers.
Because the guy's making a movie and he made a mistake. If you hate
him, you want him in prison. And he's made a lot of enemies
because he shouts about politics and acts as if his version of politics are the
only right ones and everybody else is a moron, you know. That tends
to make people hate him. But he doesn't deserve to be put in jail
for an accident unless you're unless you think he does because you're a weirdo.
So I think he suffered enough personally. And I don't have what they have
in front of me, but they're saying that just I just think they just
thought it was It wasn't gonna it wasn't gonna work. The interesting thing is,
well, there's so if it was modified, and if it was less
his fault, whose fault was it? Whose fault was it more? Now
that to me would be the armorer. The armorer handed him this gun that
was modified. So did she modify it, and if and if the modifications
made it less his fault, didn't make it more her fault. So the
woman, her last name is gautierres Read, and she is the armor.
Her old lawyers say, we are we are so happy that that's been dropped,
and we expect charges against our client to be dropped as well. I
don't know, you know, I think there's some criminal negligence here and we
can't. They say their their investigation is ongoing. So if I was that
the armor. I wouldn't be too sure that this isn't even worse for her,
because now they said it's not him soon whose fault is it somebody else's?
And she's that the crosshairs are directly on her if you ask me.
And the of course, the interesting thing is the the victim, the deceased
cinematographer, and don't forget the director of the film also got hit by something.
Howina Hutchins the deceased her husband is now the executive producer of the efforts
to finish the film, so they made some kind of deal there to keep
him from suing the production so we could go on. And he is now
an executive producer of a feature film with Alec Baldwin. Make of that what
you will. Let's move to television. In television today, the most interesting
case to me is the Paramount filing a fifty million dollar counterclaim against Warner Brothers
over the south Park cartoons now twenty eighteen. I think it was south Park
created, made a deal or Paramount owned south Park. Why because it started
on like you know, MTV or VH one or something, and that was
owned by Viacom and now Viacom merges with CBS and they make this company called
Paramount. So Paramount owns south Park, and what they do is they made
a streaming deal where they got fifty million dollars that they needed from Warner Brothers
that they didn't have to stream the south Park content. It would be like
after the day after they would be broadcast on Paramount Plus, they would be
or whatever cable channel Paramount owns that's broadcasting them. Also, they would be
sent over to HBO for streaming. And then when Paramount Plus so that yeah,
so this would be they would be on Comedy Central, right, Comedy
Central. And then when Paramount Plus became a big concern for CBS Vicon Paramount
entity, they started saying, we really got to use south Park to make
Paramount Plus subscriptions go up. So let's get some extra specials and some other
content from south Park and let's you put them on Paramount Plus because we need
this. And then Warner Brothers said no, no, no, no,
no, everything goes here. After that, I don't know, they had
some technicality they said, you're breaching our contract by doing that, so they
stopped paying. So they owe fifty million dollars and it's incremental payments and so
now they've stopped paying it all because they're saying, you're breaching the contract.
Now here's the response. And now I'm going to make a legal point.
That's why I'm coming up. This is a legal point that can help you.
And when you have contracts that you've believe or breached and you're want to
fight and so this is something you got to know. So what Paramount Plus
says is that Warner Brothers Discovery has indefensively refused to pay more than fifty million
dollars it owes for south Park content that it has undisputably received and which HBO
Max continues to air and exploit. Warner Brothers Discoveries argument that Paramount Global was
required to deliver an additional south Park content is baseless and wholly unsupported by the
party's agreement. Furthermore, it certainly does not justify refusal to pay for immensely
valuable content, all of which it has received and from which it continues to
profit. Okay, Paramount is right about this. If you have a breach,
a contractual breach, you cannot you can't like say, okay, you
breach this one part. So I'm not paying any of the money. Like
I always run into this in record deals where bands want off of their label.
You say, hey, will you breach this one area, like you
didn't pay on time but during this quarter, and then the resolution of that
that you're defendant if you're trying tossue them and saying the contracts over, I
get to leave the contractor I get to go to another label. That's what
bands always want to do. I want to go to another label. They're
going to give me a big giant advance or whatever, or they're a bigger,
better label they're going to spend more money on, and I'm finally going
to get my rockstar dreams to come through. You cannot just unilaterally terminate a
contract, but that's what people always try to do. If there's one breach
in it. They say, well, I'm terminating this contract because you didn't
do this one thing. So the contract's over, so I don't have to
be in your label, or I don't have to pay That's what Warner Brothers
seems to be doing now. They are saying, because you put some stuff
on Paramount plus, we don't have to pay you the fifty million anymore.
Whatever's left of it, and that's just wrong. You have to continue to
pay that fifty million because they delivered the episodes to you and you're still airing
them. So it's it's a bad it's it's a technicality maybe, but it's
a bad argument because you got to pay your fifty million dollars and if you
have a problem with what they did with these little piecemeal things, then you
can file a claim for that and or maybe make a deduction, but you
can't just stop paying the end all right, So yeah, it's not that
great, But that could happen to you when whenever you use you think your
contract. You want to terminate a contract, you can't terminate it because of
some some certain breach. You know, it would have to be a material
breach that makes it frustrates the purpose of the contract and it can no longer
be executed. Like if you had a record label that just just stopped sending
out all your records and it ceased operations and they started sending out you know,
toilet paper instead. You could say, well, this company doesn't even
put out our records. They put out toilet paper. So this frustrates our
purpose because we're trying to sell records or trying to go on tour. This
was what the contract was for. You could terminate a contract like that if
it's a huge breach, but not if it's just like, well, they
paid late on the royalties. Now, if they paid late, you you
know, you send them a letter and then they have a thirty days to
pay, and then or sixty days to pay, or even maybe then ninety
days to pay. You should read a contract and see what that is,
and then if they still don't pay, then you can sue them for that
money. But you might still be under obligation to be under that contract.
So I don't think you can terminate something just because of one little thing.
All right, let's take a break now and we'll come back to Joe Scalante
Live from the Coachella Valley. Joe Scolante Live from Coachell on KiB. I've
been here all weekend and tonight is the final night. I'll have the second
weekend of Coachell. It next week the Stage Coach Festival, but I can't
go because I got to go to a wedding. So joining myself here in
the desert for these it turns out to be five days. Really come a
day before, you leave a day late, try to avoid traffic, that
kind of stuff. All right, Next up on the docket here there's some
Disneyland news. Well, last night, I guess there was a fire during
Tasmic and the dragon, the big dragon that I think breathes fire, it's
caught on fire. So if you look at YouTube, a lot of footage
of the dragon on fire in Anaheim on the rivers of America, just in
flames. It's it's as good as it sounds. Look at YouTube, we'll
see some some footage of it across the nation from Also in Disney is an
article this week about a nineteen million dollars mansion that's actually inside the park grounds
of Disney World. Now, it doesn't sound like it's not like you go
into adventure Land and you turn left and there's a house and you're going to
buy it and live in it. I think that would cost more than nineteen
million. There is a mansion. There's a neighborhood of mansions, a lot
of mansions, and it's called Golden Oak, and it's on Disney property,
developed by Disney. And if you look, if you google this, the
house for nineteen million. A lot of you know, Star Wars room and
all that kind of stuff. But if you're a Disney freak, it said,
like the people use this for vacations. But after the pandemic, people
started realizing, you know what, let's live for a full time, and
so a lot of full time residents at Golden Oak. I've never been to
Golden Oak. I've been to Celebration. Celebration is a neighborhood also developed by
Disney, and they wanted to when they built first built in Disney World in
Epcot, they wanted to make neighborhoods. They wanted to make Disney and Disney
neighborhoods for people to live in, and and Celebration was the first one,
and they did it, and they certainly they didn't like it. They didn't
like the business. There's a couple of books about Celebration Florida, two of
them. They're both got up. Read both of them and I highly recommend
reading those. Just like the kind of people that went and bought homes there
and the rules they had to live by very fascinating. But Golden Oak.
I didn't even know about Golden Oak until I read this article. So if
you got nineteen million that's a pretty good one. Okay. Now we're going
to move over to celebrities behaving badly and he probably heard about this. Jonathan
Majors. He's the star of the recent Anton Man movie where he plays Kang.
Then he's the star of let me let me just pull up his resume
for you. I guess he first got famous in the TV series Lovecraft Country.
They were stories based on HB. Lovecraft novels. I guess. Then
he was the star of the Last Black Man in San Francisco in twenty nineteen.
Critics love that movie. I haven't seen it. I gotta see that
movie now. Then he becomes Kang in The ant Man and then coming up
Out, and then he's Creed three. He plays the main challenger um in
Creed three, Damien Anderson, that was his role. Then he's gonna be
in another Anton Man movie that's you know, Kang, It's all Kang.
And then he just became like he's going to be in every movie, Avengers
Secret Wars coming in twenty twenty six, the Kang Dynasty. So he's got
a movie title. You know, he's the lead role. And then in
this adventure of the next Avengers movie, the Kang Dynasty. He's in a
movie called forty eight Hours in Vegas playing Dennis Rodman, and then a movie
called The Understudy. It's in pre production. I mean, i would say
of all the actors working today, I'd say the most promising future of any
young actor. I mean, he's not that young, but he's He's on
top a list, if ever there was a plus list. Now comes nasty
rumors, the kind that get you canceled domestic violence. But he maintains his
innocence. He says he is irrefutable evidence proves he did not attack his girlfriend.
And but he's getting canceled from just about everything that he's that he's working
on. And everyone's looking at this really close. I mean, the stakes
could not get higher, and everybody's you know, wants to know if is
this stuff true? Okay, there seems to be several allegations. One of
them is from a woman who hasn't been named yet, but Jonathan Major's lawyer
has filed some legal documents that attempt that allegedly show the victim going clubbing after
the attack. In the video footage, she appears uninjured using her right hand
and the finger Majors as accused of breaking. She danced her way to the
DJ booth, passed a note to the DJ, danced wildly, even hanging
off the DJ booth with her right hand, drank her champagne, smoked a
vape, clearly having a great time. A Major's attorney says he was the
victim, and the story goes according to him that as was witnessed by the
driver, who saw and heard everything. According to the attorney, just before
one am, see out. At one am, bad stuff happens. The
woman assaulted mister Majors in a car while she was attempting to steal his phone.
The driver will testify that mister Majors never struck her in any way at
any times that would be powerful, or even raised his voice, and instead,
while she was hitting and scratching and attacking him, the driver to open
the door so that he could jump out of the car and escape her.
The driver will testify that he unlocked the door to help mister Major's escape.
Then the woman attacked mister Major's on the street as he tried to run away
from her. In doing so and in trying to prevent him from escaping,
she ripped his coat buttons and tore his coat pocket, but he got away.
Major supposedly checked into a hotel while the woman went to a nightclub.
While partying, she sent him angry, jealous text messages and accused him of
infidelity. She supposedly charged an eight hundred dollars bottle of champagne to his credit
card without permission. The woman then went to an apartment. His apartment around
three thirty am called him thirty two times again. I remember he's in a
hotel and they have security footage saying she looks like she's fine. And then
when he returned the next morning, he found her unconscious in his walk in
closet. She said, according to bodycamp footage from paramedics, she took a
few sleeping pills. You know, so anyway, she sounds nuts, Yeah,
she sounds nuts. Jeez, sounds like she's got problems. But many
people are not coming to Major's defense because they say there's other things out there
like this. I'm just dealing with this case. This case looks terrible,
so I don't think he's going to suffer from this case. But the question
is will this bankable star be canceled and who will take his place? In
all these movies he has coming up. He's expected to be an Awards contender
this year for his performance in something called Magazine DRAMs. He's already facing setbacks
to his career, though. The actor was dropped by his publicist and manager
earlier this week, and a few projects he was attached to cut ties.
However, the actor's role in the Marvel of Cinema Manic University Where University Universe,
where he's set to play Kang in several films, is reportedly still up
in the air, as that you know, Disney owns that thing and they're
going to make a decision, and but you know, and then some of
these movies like Loki if a second season. Loki already been shot a Quantum
adam at Man on Quantum Ade, He's already in the theaters. I'll be
in court May eighth to go before a judge on the domestic finlence charges.
But I mean for him to get dropped by his publicist, Like the attorneys
have done a great job showing Hey, this is all bys she's nuts.
Okay, that's what they got me on it. I'm wow. But he's
been dropped by his publicists. There's something else there and we'll have to find
out what that is. All right, let's take a break, we'll check
the traffic, and we'll come back with Joe Escalante Live this weekend from Coachella
on KiB. Loyal you don't want Joe Esplante Life from Coachella Valley Music and
Arts Festival on KiB. We're here all weekend long and tonight, third Night,
number three, Weekend number two, Blink one eighty two takes over for
the messed up Frank Ocean. I think I talked to you guys a little
bit about last week the Fox Dominion case. What I said about the Fox
News Channel's lawsuit that they are the defendants in um from this Dominion voting company.
They make voting machines, and people went on Fox News Channel during the
aftermath of the election when Trump lost and said, there's no way that this
guy lost it. Dominion voting machines are rigged. That's what they were saying,
and Jnald Trump was saying this, so he had his people on his
side saying these voting machines are rigged, among other things in this election.
It turns out they couldn't prove it, and so it was a disparaging thing
to say about a dominion about a voting machine company. The voting machine company
says they lost contracts I think primarily in Republican states. Says, well,
don't use dominion. I think they rigged the elections. And they based this
on the fact, according to some sources, that the how did how did?
How is it possible that Joe Biden got fifteen million more vote votes then
not Donald Trump, then Barack Obama? How is that possible? How did
Biden? The aging white Biden who was hiding during the whole campaign, didn't
go out, didn't didn't campaign. I mean, it's easy to see how
he won. The country's to find it, But how did he get fifteen
million more votes? That's bizarre. So one of the theories was maybe the
machines are rigged. So that's what Donald Trump says, and he says he
has proof. So Fox starts reporting this. They don't report that it's true.
They report that these people are saying it, and they bring the people
on. Now they couldn't prove it, so then they said Fox's spreading lies.
I think there's a difference between putting these people on to who are a
notable people and Donald who are expressing Donald Trump's theory that he's spreading everywhere and
saying, here's what they say. Let's see what they have to say about
it. Do they have any And the people didn't come up with much,
so what they should have probably concentrated on other things that were like the laptop,
the Bunner Hear Biden laptop. They probably should have just concentrate on that
because that turned out to be true, stuff that affected the election and the
dominion. Stuff they couldn't prove and it hurt this company, and this company
sues them for defamation because remember, what do you have to have for defamation?
You need something that makes people spit on the ground and it has to
be not true. Okay, so you guys cheated and affected the outcome of
an election. People spit on the ground. It's terrible. How dare you
now? If it's not true, you gotta done with the defamation case.
In this case, I think these people believe that it was true, so
you would have to have a trial and say we're going to prove that it's
true. Maybe they can prove it's true. Probably not, but maybe it
was their opinion. If it's their opinion. It's people have a right to
an opinion. Everybody has a right to say I think Dominion cheated because I
just don't believe it's possible that they that Biden could have got fifteen million more
votes than Obama. So you have a right to say that. But and
also this is a public figure. Dominion accounts as a public figure. I
think most people agree. So you have to get to a higher level of
defamation. You have to knowingly say things you know are false, and then
you have to know that they will hurt that person. You're doing it for
the purpose of hurting them, or you're so recklessly disengaged from it you have
you're at in paying attention to how much damage you're causing. So that's what
Dominion is hanging on, because they have texts going back and forth saying these
people are KuPS, but we got to put them on because you know,
our audience has already mad at us, so we can't stifle them. Now.
If if Fox was going to stifle these people and say you're not even
allowed to say this might be true, then they have other problems because now
they're censoring people who may have a case. Now that we've seen what's happened
with Hunter Biden laptop and the CIA actually getting involved to try to affect the
election. Now we see how high these things can go and how sinister this
election tampering can get. So it is maybe in retrospect reasonable to investigate this,
But back then there's so much pressure from the media all the way around,
and also depends on what court you're going to get in. If you're
in a court in New York and your Fox fighting this thing, you're kind
of screwed because they don't like Fox News. So that's what happened to Fox.
They had a couple setbacks in during the court hearing, saying We're not
even going to listen to this one. They said, we're not going to
let you even argue that this stuff is free speech because we have a court
have determined that they were lies. And that's very strange, and I think
that might have been overturned in a you'll have a judge can say I determine
those were lies. Really, I mean, it was so close to the
election, you really don't know fifteen million votes, there's a lot of suspicious
stuff, calling them lies and saying I'm not going to argue whether that they
might have been opinions or you know, we have a free speech a right
to say these things. I'm going to say, you don't have a right
to say that because they were lies. So the only question we're going to
talk about is how much damage you did to these people, whether it was
willful or it rises the level of malice. And so Fox is up against
a wall there, Dominions up against the wall because they're saying that they have
one point six billion in damages when they don't have any damages, arguably because
they're making more money than they ever made in their lives and they want one
point six billion in damages. So that's a hard one. But if they
go in front of a jury, the jury could say I hate Fox News.
You can have five billion, have ten billion. I hate these people.
So Fox has to worry about that. So they settled like last Monday
on the day of the trial. Remember what I said about this that you
won't be able to find anything printed that will tell you what you need to
know about this case because everything printed, everything in the media is based is
written by Fox's enemies. And they wanted to say it was so devastating it
would be the end of Fox News, but because they wish it would be
the end of Fox News. So I just said, don't we don't know.
We don't know anything. All we know is what we will find out
at the trial. Because all we've heard from his dominion's opinion. We haven't
heard Foxes officially because they haven't filed anything other than you know, these couple
motions. They haven't done their testimony to say their bulk of their their defense.
So I just wasn't listening to anything of it. People were sending me
stuff because I make two shows for Fox Nation, and they were saying,
oh man, you your network is going to go out of business. It's
devastating. It's the end of Fox these text messages, it's going to bring
down the whole empire. And I didn't believe it because we were only hearing
from their enemies. Now we've heard from everybody, well not really. We
have a settlement. Seven hundred and eighty seven million is the settlement from Fox.
The Fox will pay Dominion. They don't want to go in front of
a trial and find out they have to pay five billion. They don't want
to take that chance. And with a New York jury and dominion doesn't want
to take a chance to try to get one point seven billion or more because
even if they did win at trial, it's very likely it would be appealed,
and then if it goes up to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court's
got a six to three conservative majority, the chances are that's not going to
be that great for a dominion when it goes there. So they would never
get their money because you don't have to pay until you all these appeals ran
out, So it'd be like five years before this dominion guy, I think
it's just one guy too, would get any money, and the whole time
he'd be going through trial, probably not paying fees, but racking up fees
that would be paid on after he wins. What if he doesn't win,
Now he wasted a lot of time, but his company is still making money.
So so now here's my main point. Devastating for Fox. Now their
insurance is going to pay most of this, maybe all of it, and
anything they do pay is tax deductible, because if you have a lawsuit like
this and it's a private company that you might have to pay money to,
it's tax deductible. If it's a government saying you're getting fined and you got
to pay a seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars in fines. You got
to pay that, and you can't deductive from your taxes. But in something
like this, it's tax deductible. Fox makes a ton of cash. They
need deductions, and they have this insurance so they won't affect their business at
all. And which is you know, I don't really it's not really here
nor there where they're to fix their business. But when I had to hear
all the people telling me it was going to be the end of Fox,
and it was devastating and all this stuff, all those people are stupid and
eyes. So every time you see one of those articles to say this is
the end of Fox, Fox devastating thing for Fox, not true. More
fake news. So I hope someone gives them a flick right in the forehead
all the people that said that. Anyway, All right, well that's the
end of the segment and there's always more. Joe Scillante live from Coachella,
leaving you with just a taste of the greatest song ever written.