Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean burd Bank, we
are preempted today. So this is a podcast version. Sam is here and
we're gonna run through the usual stuff without commercials. But sometimes they just pop
in, huh, don't they? Sam? Yeah? I think the system
naturally pops them in there just because the populate them. All Right, that's
cool. You might have already listened to one to get to this part.
Okay, what are we gonna do? I don't have to describe the show
because if you listen to the podcast, you already know it. When we're
on AIM Radio, we have to gotta sell it. A lot of competition
out there, like vitamin infomercials and some buy gold and on the other stations.
Sam, let's start with them with a lawsuit for the ages. I
got to hear this. Two disgruntled Madonna concertgoers are suing her for being two
hours late to her performance. Evidently she didn't go on until two thirty.
I mean, I'm sorry ten thirty, but so they the concert said it
would start at eight thirty. She didn't go on stage till ten thirty.
And they have been harmed in a way where they were confronted with afterwards,
confronted with limited public transportation, limited ride sharing, and and or increased public
and private transportation costs with the show ending after midnight. Now, I don't
think that was late for Madawn. I think that was just early. That's
probably when she wakes up to because she's seventy years old or something like right
now, and she probably got a different time zone. So you got to
allow for the elderly when they're you know, dealing with with I mean the
ladies. How old is she, Sam, I don't know, but she
what's wrong with people? I think that's what this show, this lawsuit goes
in the category of what's wrong with you people? You people should be shamed,
and I'm here to shame you. They are. I got to get
their names so I can fully shame them. I'm checking Madonna's age right now.
She's sixty five years old. It's only five years older than me,
so and maybe she could get the run time, but everybody knows. And
part of their lawsuit was she it has been known to be late for other
tours, and so if that's the case, if I'm the judge, I
go, wait a second. You know she's going to be late. Everyone's
talking about it. It's just like going to see Morrissey, like, oh
will you show up and all that kind of stuff. It's part of the
thrill. What time will she show up? You want to come into my
courtroom and you want to sue her and then trying to make it a class
action suit because other people have had the same harm. Get out of my
courtroom, that's what I say. Fortunately, this BS article didn't list the
names. Oh wait here they are sorry. Oh my problem is they listed
it in the first sentence. Michael Fellows Jonathan hadn't Shame on you, Shame
on you never win for going shame on YouTube for not for suing people.
I mean, since when has have artists been responsible for transportation costs? Well?
I mean did The legal question is did they have a reasonable right to
rely on the schedule and plan their day accordingly? And if they did,
and she's responsible for these increased costs in transportation, then she could be liable
for these damages. But since they are deminimous, as they would say in
the courtroom, get out of my courtroom. That's what I say. Get
out. They call this a wanton exercise of false advertising, negligent misrepresentation,
and unfair and deceptive trade practices. And they're also naming the Barkley Center and
Live Nation for this unconscionable, unfair and deceptive trade practice. It is egregious,
outrageous, and preposterous. I had that, but Michael Fellows Jonathan hadden't
two losers that just entered the a litigation Hall of shame. So I mean
that's like me going and ensuing Dodgers and Dodgers Stadium for a game going eighteen
innings right due to a lackluster offense. Yeah, is it reasonable to expect
that that that they could get one run in the extra nine innings? That
would be a court that would be an issue for the trier of fact,
as they also say, so if this is a this is going to get
somewhere in the court and and somebody's I mean, there are legitimate, not
legitimate, but cases of of you know, consumer trade consumer fraud cases that
are similar to this. So it kind of apes a consumer fraud case,
which would be like you said, this Jack in the box burger was made
out of one hundred percent angus beef, when in fact, it is made
out of one kangaroo byproducts. That would be a legitimate consumer fraud case.
And they're trying to say, well, you promised that this show would be
at eight thirty and it didn't go on until ten thirty. Okay, Well,
if a concert ticket says eight thirty the band, we know the band's
not going on in eight thirty. They want you to get in the seat.
They want you to hang around, buy a couple of foam fingers,
some nachos, funnel cake t shirts, maybe a couple one hundred and fifty
dollars t shirts, maybe a twelve hundred dollars satin tour jacket, glow sticks,
gotten candy. How about a program? But you're not so, this
is not good. This is not going anywhere. Let's move on then,
Joe, since that's not going anywhere, But what if it does, then
I'll eat my hat. Here's something I don't I talk about a lot,
but there's some projects in development that have got caught my eye. He's not
really because there's not a lot OF's a few legal issues going on with these.
There's a lot of movies and TV shows based on you know, just
either torn from the headlines or a cultural phenomenon that's a movie about or you
know, some trend or maybe a biopics like hey, Queen did really well
and nw a movie. And now we've got so in development. We have
a Richard Simmons biopic with Polly Shore as Richard Simmons. Oh my god,
that sounds amazing. It does until you see the short film that they I
haven't seen at all. I just watched his initial performance and it looks so
you can see this now. There's a short film that is that Sundance right
now. Sundance is going on, and that's a film festival where people,
you know come and buy all the cool indie markets like Netflix will go there
and buy, you know, whatever the hottest indie movie is and throw it
on their channel Manchester by the Sea, that kind of stuff. Oh Amazon,
I'm going to give you eight million dollars or whatever. That's going on
right now. And then they also have a lot of screens of movies that
are just about to come out. So they're pig poly Shores there or this
company that that's trying to make this biopick, and they have a ten minute
short film that showcases Polyshore as Richard Simmons, so you can see it right
now. It's called the Court Jester. I'm not sure what if that's a
good name or not. Yeah, Usually you want a title that can make
it so that you can immediately identify it with whoever you're talking about. Yeah,
and maybe more uplifting or indicate drama. But the Court Jester, I
don't know what the court is like. If it was about a really funny
guy that played badminton or something, or you know, or tennis, so
there was a court involved, I don't know where the court is involved in
the Richard Simmons world. So let's start there. Your title sucks, let's
go. And I'm a poly Shore fan. Don't get me wrong. This
guy is. I think he's an American treasure. But watch the watch the
go look up bio, look up poly Shore or Richard Simmons Court Jester.
You'll see it on YouTube. It's ten minutes. And I saw his performance,
just the first couple of minutes of it. And and here's another thing.
We're now our eyes and our senses are conditioned to watch biopics where the
people look like the character because of prosthetic makeup. Right, yeah, this
guy's got no makeup. He's just got a wig and he's dancing around and
being somewhat effeminate. I think he seems more like poly Shore, I mean
like Richard Simmons when he's actually doing his polyshoract, then when he's making when
he's impersonating Richard Simmons. So I think there's some work to be done here.
I don't know if this was a wise move. And then there's a
lead good idea on paper, it sounds like it needs better makeup and good
directing. Yeah, I think you and I haven't seen the whole short,
but I just I just I just want to see how he's you know,
pulling this off. And I was a little bit underwhelmed. But we're early.
But I just don't think he should have released this. So but maybe
they've tried everything else and they said we just got to do it. But
I would have spent another fifty grand on prosthetic makeup and then and really lived
in that character. Yes, that's what I would do. Okay, So
there's Richard Simmons. Is he is he? Is he on board? No?
Evidently there's he put out a message said I don't support this movie,
don't believe the lies. I am trying to just live a quiet life.
I don't have a manager, I don't have a publicist anymore. I'm just
trying to quit live a quiet life. You know. Good for him,
that's a very refreshing statement about a celebrity. He's not trying to milk it
till the end, waiting for his comeback. He just trying to just live.
So I picture him in Palm Springs. I don't know where he really
lives. I know that he was on a He had a house where Beverly
Hills tour buses went by, and he would come out and wave to everybody.
What a guy. But I don't know where he's at now now then
he was missing for a while and everyone's worried about Now he says, I'm
not backing this. But now Polly Shore has come back and said whoa,
whoa, whoa. Richard Simmons has reversed coals course, and he has said
good luck with this. So I think that the one good luck. Maybe
it was a good luck or was it, oh good luck? Poly Shore?
I love you. I don't know, but we'll find out. So
is it going to be an unauthorized biopic or not at this point. It's
unauthorized, and what is the law on that. The law is you can
do a story about anything you want a movie as long as you're using things
that are in the public record. They're just facts. So there is a
fact that Richard Simmons had a show, and there is a fact that he
was a flamboyant character. You go ahead and imitate him and make a movie.
What can you not do? You can't take his private writings or stuff
that's not public and make scenes out of that that no one else was around,
or you're not getting it from someone else. Let's say he has an
interaction with a security guard somewhere at a store and he's accused of shoplifting.
Let's say I'm making all this up, This didn't happen, and no one
else saw this but him, and they go in a room and he's interrogated.
No one's there but Richard Simmons in the security guard. And in a
case like that, you would need the rights from Richard Simmons or the security
guard. But you can't just like rumor had it, or steal them,
basically saying you couldn't steal the private diaries of Richard Simmons or the security guard
and publish that, because that would be private and that's not in the public
record. But if there was a newspaper article about a interrogation that happened,
and you could put that in your movie, and you could simulate what you
think happened in interrogation, and you you know, that's why you see these
disclaimers that say some of these things are inspired by real events, blah blah
blah. So we want to live in a world where people can tell stories
about other people, but you also want to live in a world where people
can have a certain amount of privacy or have the right to sell their own
story. So Richard Simmons can be going like, I'm going to sell my
own story, so I don't want you to make that movie. Okay,
Well, then your movie's gonna be better because it's authorized and you have more
details about your life. But you might be whitewashing it and not want to
tell the dirty stuff, so the other one might be better. So there's
a balance. Honestly, I think the way to go would be like how
the Elvis movie kind of just took random public and publicly known stuff and just
made stuff up around it, and they can. I think they should go
and like make it clear that this is inspired by his life, but it
is not one to one remake. It's definitely like you can say he was
an international man of mystery, a spy. You can go in any direction
with it. Well, it can't defame him, you know, you can't
say, well, he nothing defamatory, make him a superhero, right,
yeah, you can do that as long as he doesn't suffer any damages.
But that's not the there's I don't think there's any legal, real legal problems
in this biopic. But there was another one that Sophia and Virgara is is
about to debut on Netflix. So Sophia Vergara is gonna play Griselda forgot her
last name, the you know, black widow Cocaine Queen of Colombia. Also
Carol g the singer, is making her acting debut in this. So it's
set in the nineteen seventies and eighties in Miami, and there's probably some Colombian
stuff in there. And she was like ruthless, like you know, like
just an awful person, like you know, cut your face off, kind
of a cartel boss. And so there may I think This has already been
done in the Spanish language, but this one is an English language one.
And the son of the cocaine Queen, Michael Sepovida Blanco, he is suing
Netflix and Sophia and everyone else in sight saying that wait a second, I've
been working on this thing for a long time, my own movie and book
and etc. I met with these two guys, and these two guys met
with you guys, and then you stole the whole thing. So now they've
got a problem because and this, if you look at this article, I
think it's a variety or something I forgot, so I apologize for having you're
not gonna look look at it anyway. But let me tell you something.
I read a lot of these lawsuits and complaints and they're they're poorly written,
or they're just pie in the sky, like, hey, you you have
no right to make a movie about my life or my mother's life. This
one was written by a level lawyers who are concentrating on some private information that
was not known to the public, that that the son of the cocaine queen
told some TV developers and they told that to the people at Netflix. And
it's so there's some there are there are some private things that are not public
that are in this movie or TV series. That's what they're alleging. And
if that's true, then you have a case because you could anybody can make
a movie about this cocaine queen, but you But if there's some private stuff
that's not public that that he could make an argument say that's mine and I
and now you've ruined my ability to make I was going to disclose that in
my book or my movie. Now I've been harmed and nobody. But it's
a kind of a case where people are meeting with this guy, but know
wanted to be in business with the guy. Oh, I wonder why,
And so they're making their own thing and without him. Now, when you're
dealing in the world of Colombian neckties and Cicaro's kidnappings, seems a little dangerous
to me. I don't know why Sophia Vergara would want to play this role
in a contentious family rights atmosphere because things happen in Colombia. I don't know
if you remember this being a sports fan, you probably do. When the
Colombian and they're in the World Cup, the Colombian goalie accidentally scored a goal
in his own net Oh yeah, no, that was Andre's Oh jeez,
Escobar andres Escobar. What happened to him? He ended up getting killed once
he went back to the country like two weeks later. Yeah, virtually dead
on arrival when he went. Yeah, great documentary in the thirty for thirty
series about that called Oh my God, I highly recommend it. Okay?
Is that the way those are all on ESPN Plus? Now I heard,
Yeah, the entire series, All of those are great, but that one
in particular is my favorite. That is a reason to get ESPN Plus those
thirty for thirty Catalog and Plus is bundled with Hulu and Disney Channel. So
I'm trying to talk myself into it. So that's why I'm telling you.
Okay. So I don't know why she's doing that, but they filed an
injunction. They would like to get an injunction to stop it from airing.
It airs on January twenty fifth on Netflix. We'll see if it happens or
And it seems like the guy just kind of wants credit. Hey, let
me in on it. The Hollywood action. Then he can get a producer
credit, and then he can run around saying I'm actually a TV producer,
not just the son of a murderer. It's pretty legitimacy. All right,
I'm gonna zip through these other stories. So far, I'm having fun.
How about you, Sam, I'm always having fun when I'm here with you.
There's a there's a very, there's a dearth. I think that's the
word of celebrities behaving badly this week. Everybody they're on their best behavior.
So the only thing I got is Samantha Fox getting kicked off a plane and
arrested for drunken behavior and delaying a flight from Munich to London. You mean
the former porn star and music star. She had to have one hit,
wonder, yes, the very one. And I don't know how she could
be the most obnoxious German on that plane, or you know, more obnoxious
than all the Germans on this plane from Munich to London. But somehow she
did it, and they threw her in jail. By the way, I
like your segue because that was the name of her song, I want to
have some fun. Oh, yeah, of course I knew that. Let's
see what else I got. I've got? Oh, the movie is the
box Office you may have noticed, if you're a listener to the show.
I kind of put the box Office in the middle of the show instead of
at the beginning, because I think when people are listening to AIM radio they
could care less about the box office. But I like to. I like
to touch on it, of no doubt. But this is this week.
There's nothing going on. This is the dead month for movies because all the
good movies theoretically were released in December so they could have Academy consideration. You
dump your terrible movies in January, unless it's everywhere, Everything all at once,
which was released in like February or something. January of February something like
that was a weird one best picture. So that's the exception that proves the
rule. I guess the number one movies right now are Mean Girls. Number
two is Wonka. How many ways saw it? Wonka? Still, Hey,
I went and saw it. It was a great movie. Right,
So, after a certain amount of word of mouth and nothing else to see,
you went and saw it, right, Yeah. I took your recommendation
specifically. I was like I got to see this. Yeah, okay,
good. So maybe I'm driving the box office on this. I think that's
what you're saying. Yes, it's absolutely you. I'm giving you one hundred
percent credit for making Wonka number two in the nation. Thank you, thank
you. I got to tell their publicists that they got to put me on
their list. No one invites me to anything, no screenings, no junkets,
no nothing. And here I am driving the I'm making like his history
with this Wonka movie. So if you haven't seen, it's a really good
movie, right, good songs, Oh yeah, and it's a what do
you think it's a beautiful prequel to the original with Gene Wilder. Yeah.
Like they pay so many great homages and tributes to that original. It's beautiful.
Yes. What did you think of Hugh Grant? I didn't even know
he was in it. I saw his name and the credits at the beginning.
I'm like, oh, wow, you Grant, and then I just
didn't notice him. He was the Wonka. He was the oppa. Oh
that's right, he was the Oupa lumpa. Yeah, he was outstanding,
outstanding, so much standing, you didn't even know it was him exactly.
He really like he that's some good method acting. He lived and breathed the
oopa loompa experience. It was outstanding. It was actually what I would consider
him for Oscar consideration. That would be the ultimate burn on him because he
complained about his experience in the movie and he trashed the movie. Oh jeez.
I would love to see him get like best Supporting Actor for the imp.
In fact, we should get a campaign going for him, like a
William hung style grassroots campaign for Hugh Grant. For your consideration, I'll work.
I'll work on the ad mats right away. So okay, yeah,
So the no good movies, I mean no real big movies that are getting
released, but there are a couple cool movies, like there's this Iss movie
about the I haven't seen yet. The world is the Russians in the United
States are fighting. The war breaks out, the war that you know everyone
things, Yes, yeah, I saw the trailer for this one. Yeah.
And then the space station is up there with the with Americans and Russians,
and I think they both get a messages like go and kill the other
astronauts. So there's a big space fight. So I'm definitely going to see
that. I didn't go to the movies this week. Things are crazy in
my life, and in a good way. The money's pouring in. Don't
work. No, it is, really, it's it's incredible. I don't
know if you noticed that Coachella was announced this week. Yes I did.
I saw the lineup, and I am the manager of the main stage Coachella
band called Sublime with featuring the son of the original singer, Jacob Bradley no
Jacob Nole, and then the original bass player and drummer, Eric Wilson and
Bud gaw And it's caught fire. So it's one of the big stories coming
out of Coachella, other than No Doubt getting back together. And these are
two bands that played together and part of the same scene. And they will
be in the Saturday night at Coachella. That's awesome. So yeah, that's
this is like a full time job dealing with this now. And it kind
of just I don't know if I talked about it that much on the show,
but it kind of fell on my lap. I was doing some legal
work for the bass player and just as a favor, because I don't do
legal work for hardly anyone. But and then one thing led to another on
you know, I got a partner or managing this band and on Coachella and
we got a movie coming out or not. The movie Shooting in the Summer,
directed by Francis Lewis, The That's Awesome, The Hunger Games written by
Chris Monday of Ozark, so on Sony three thousand Pictures. So it's crazy,
and so I guess I could say, well, I was busy making
movies. I couldn't release see one, but I did watch. I'm in
the middle of it, so I'm not done with it. I'm not going
to talk about too much, but I do recommend it. It's the Snow
Society of the Snow Netflix movie about the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the
Andes. I don't know if you got at what they meant the live or
the real life story of the people from the movie Alive. Yes, which,
after you watch this movie you will be embarrassed that you sat through that.
That a live movie. This movie is so good and such a deeper
level. It's all in Spanish. Uh, it's it's It's a wonderful film.
I'm not done with the yet though, so we'll talk about it later.
And then another development coming up, a movie called not as a movie.
It's a TV show. It's a it's a squid game type TV show
based on the popular dining establishment Chuck E Cheese. Oh go On, It's
the Pizza Time Theater, and it's surreally dystopic kid's birthday party destination, and
it's uh, you know, it's adults are going to compete, you know,
with a giant arcade games and they get you know, winning tickets and
they can exchange them for prizes on the iconic Chuck E Cheese prize wall.
That sounds awesome. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it sounds
awesome, but you know, there's a million ways that can go wrong.
So let's they could also try to kind of capitalize on that five Nights at
Freddy's vibe and turn it into kind of a horror survival game. I think
that's what it is, and I think that's what they did. Freddy is
definitely the inspiration for this cool So I think we're we're I think we're ready
to move on and wrap up the show. I just want to let everybody
know that Monday, January twenty second, there will be a solidarity bargaining kickoff
rally for the American Federation of Musicians. Now we had your SAG strike,
your a w G A strike And now the af of them are having a
rally over at the Galleria where the where the Producers Society has the headquarters,
and they're gonna have a big rally and probably some drums to uh fight for
a better contract. I get, you know, it's streaming royalties. I
think that's what they're looking for. And I got to say, I am
the showrunner on a streaming show a couple of them, and I found out
that they're not paying any uh performance royalties, and so yeah, there's some
movement there, but it's such a weak union. I don't know what they'll
get. I think they'll got nothing, but we'll kind of follow that.
It's kind of cute. Cute guys. All right, let's leave it there.
I got a couple of shows still coming up with the Sweet and Tender
Hooligans Morrissey tribute band that I plan Casbo show sold out, but the Tearground
Ballroom on February tenth, I think it is tickets still available for that one.
If you like the Mexican Morrissey I do. And I will now leave
you with just a taste of the greatest song ever written. See you next Sunday