Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank across the street
from Wiener Schnitzel. It sells beer. And we are coming to you for
two hours live on KiB eleven fifty on your AM dial with the business end
of show business, like we do every Sunday and today. Oh, there's
a lot of movie stuff heating up, Sam, producer, Sam, you
can hear me right, Yep, we got you out and clear. Okay,
good Sam. You've been in Japan, so you probably didn't see a
lot of movies. No, no, before we go to the movies,
before we go to the movies, you saw on the plane, which I'm
sure you did. Oh yeah, I had a lot of time for that.
You took your just so I'm gonna let you know one time I flew
to Japan without getting out of my seat to go to the bathroom. That's
impressive that there has to be some kind of record where for that. Yeah,
I did it. I did it, and usually that's not me.
But I was just like in the window seat, you know, and there
was two fat people next to me. I just like, you know,
and I hadn't drank that much, so I didn't drink hardly anything on the
flight. Probably not good for me, but I did it. Oh and
I held my breath the entire time too. Just maybe more impressive, but
I really did that. Okay. Anyway, So you're in Japan, just
like a quick review of Japan for a first time visitor with his family.
I'll bet you had a great time. Oh, it was outstanding. And
you know, I went with kids. A lot of times people will go
out there and think Japan, the nightlife and all of the stuff. In
Tokyo. I stayed at one of the Disney hotels over there, and first
off Disney and the tickets. They have two different parks like we do here.
Both of those parks are great and they're like sixty five dollars to get
in. So for people looking for affordable Disney vacation, look at Tokyo.
It's really really nice out there. Tokyo. People have an impression that it
is um completely uh out of reach for for for travelers, like you're going
to get there and the food's going to be too expensive in the hotel and
all that stuff. It's not really true. There's two ways you can do
it. You can you can go eat at the Businessman Salary Man Expense account
restaurants, or you can you can get for five dollars, you can get
the best bowl of ramen you ever had in your life. Yeah. Really,
the food out there is outstanding. They have a lot of different options.
There's a mall right at the train station and where the Disney resort is,
so you can ride the monorail between the parks and the hotel and the
train station that takes you into Tokyo, which is like a ten minute ride.
But the train system out there is outstanding. I loved I loved both
Disney parks. By the way, their version of California Adventure has different flavor
popcorns and people coordinate their schedules based off of the flavor of popcorns they have
there. I saw garlic shrimp popcorn. Ouch, all right, they might
have gone too far. Oh no, I want that out here. That
garlic shrimp popcorn. It wasn't It was flavored like garlic shrimp. It was
delicious. They had curry popcorn. They had a bunch of different flavors of
popcorn. It was outstanding. I want that kind of action out here.
I also went to the San Rio Park the place where they do all the
Hello Kiddie stuff that's about two hours outside of Tokyo. Yeah, it was.
It was. Yeah, I've never been there because it's two hours outside
of Tokyo. Yeah. No, it was great. It was a lot
of fun. Didn't understand a single thing that they were saying in the show.
My kids were totally embarrassed. When, you know, like they do
the live show and the person on the microphone is asking for volunteers and I
raised my hand not speaking a word of Japanese. It was hilarious. I'm
better at that train station than I am at the subway in New York.
Oh. Yeah, easier. It's easier, much easier. And even though
there's even though it's Japanese, it's easier than the subway in New York.
Yeah. Get on that Yamanote line of the Green thing and you can go
anywhere. Yeah. But you saw some movies on the plane. Yeah yeah.
I had eleven hours on the way there. In nine hours on the
way back, I think I watched ten total movies. It was great.
I saw bashes of Innisharon finally that I've been dying to see it, and
I had the chance to finally sit down and watch it. That's a good
one. I'm going to change my story and say it was on the way
back that I was able to not leave my seat for the entire flight,
because that's the shorter one. All right, just clarification. Okay, let's
go with the movies that are in the box office right now. I've seen
a few movies this week, and we have Spider Man across the Spider Verse,
and that's you know, cleaning up. It's a cartoon. So when
I look at it, I'm like, I don't know if I'm gonna get
if I can get that excited at the cartoon. So I haven't seen it,
but it is number one, and the number two was number one last
week. Is a Little Mermaid and now a Little Mermaid. You know,
a Little Mermaid is people I've heard. I was hearing two things about it.
This could be you know, huge, or it could be the New
Cats, depending what trailer you saw. So I went to see it,
and we'll talk about that in a little second. The number three is the
Boogeyman. I didn't see it. Guardians of the Galaxy. I still haven't
seen it. Have you seen it? No? No, I haven't had
a chance to see it. I'm probably gonna go see Spider Man first.
At this point, everybody's going crazy about it, so peep. So people
like in your world, Oh yeah, nerd World, nerd World. Okay,
number five, so number five is fast X. Number six Uper Mario
Brothers with five hundred and sixty six million total in the US. That's one
of those movies where you have to I mean, you know, it's like
young kids they caught the four Quadrants or whatever. Kids, girl kids,
boy kids, adult males, adult females. Everybody likes Super Mario Brothers and
it's and they got a you know, the new attraction at Universal Studios,
so that that's working. About My father with Robert de Niro is at number
seven. It's not too too good. Number eight the machine from Sony Pictures.
Number nine, you hurt my feelings, some kind of a twenty four
romcom or something. Conde har h four million total, and number ten,
So let's see into them. Let's go to these I saw because it's all
about me. Really, Okay, we go to my letterbox to film diary
Sam, and since we were not live last week, we got to go
back pretty far to all the movies. I saw The Master Gardener. I
don't know if we talked about that last week, but anyway, so it's
a Paul Schrader film. I did talk about that because someone was sitting in
my seat. I remember that, okay, and then so let's go to
this week's movies. I go see The Little Mermaid, The Little Mermaid.
Five minutes into it, I realized I've never seen The Little Mermaid the original
really never saw it, never saw it. I just assumed I saw it.
I go, of course, I've seen the Little Mermaid, and it's
all I go, what is going on here? This is the Little Mermaid?
I asked my wife. You know, I've never seen this movie.
So anyways, as a first impression for the live action one, I thought
it was really good. I liked it better than the live action Lion King,
which I guess we would compare it to. It's doing better than that
in the box office. And I was just very impressed with the plot.
I never I didn't know all this stuff that's going on. I just heard
like under the Sea, I want to be part of your world, you
know, I hear the songs. I think that movie's for anybody at really
good special effects. The new Little Mermaid is you know, she's a sensation.
She's she's beautiful, and you know that's one of those things where like
this, this girl looks like kids today. You know, she's got this
you know, I guess she's part black or all black. I don't know.
She just looks like you know, most of the kids you see around,
so I'm sure they relate to her better than this weird redheaded one.
How many redheads are there, really, Sam, not much, not anymore.
So I thought a really good choice of casting the newcomer of which I
would call him, that plays the king. He was great and Harvier Bardam.
It's a little silly, but you know, pretty good. You know,
it's really great in at Aquafina. She's great in everything. And the
only thing that was weird, there's only one, like Cringey song that was
kind of catsy, but you get past that one the prince sings it to
himself, or that he's a king. I don't know what's the king of.
And that's the one thing that bug me. What is the what is
he the king of? Stupid? I know that's my favorite of all the
Disney movies, actually, of all the old cartoons. That was one of
my favorites, and that I don't think that song was ever actually in the
original movie. No, it's a new song. Yeah, the song that
he sings, it's there's a couple of new songs. One of them is
pretty good, like Aquafina has a really good song, and that one that
he sings towards the beginning is not very good, but you get past that.
But what is he the king of? Like? What? What?
Why? Would steaks aren't very high? Because if you're not, if you
don't end up as queen of that of that dirt claude with a with the
castle on it, I just don't think, you know who cares find something
else to do. Anyway, I saw Luca since I watched that, and
just that just came up, and I'm okay, he's a sea monster and
he's a kid. I get it, you know what I saw. I
can recommend. Are we out of time? Uh? Yeah? Yeah,
let's go, let's take a break and we'll come back and I'll tell you
a movie I can really recommend you. Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood. Alrighty,
Joe's Scolante Live from Hollywood, the Business End of Show Business every Sunday
from five to seven on k IB and all over the world on iHeartRadio.
So I was talking about the movies I saw this week, and I saw
a Little Mermaid. Definitely recommend that. And on Criterion Channel, I watched
a movie called Winchester seventy three starring Jimmy Stewart and directed by that's this guy's
name, Sam, I forgot what his name is. I mean, it's
this guy, Anthony Man. Anthony Man made a bunch of movies with Jimmy
Stewart, and there's a special and Criterion right now of all the movies that
they made together. And I guess he worked with Anthony Man the director,
because he wanted to change his image from just a lovable nice guy to a
complicated, you know, kind of sometimes villain. So Winchester seventy three is
it's just the Western that I can't believe I never saw because I usually see
all the classic westerns. But so good there. The whole movie is about
this gun, the Winchester seventy three that's so great, you know, no
one will even it's it's a priceless So this town competes as a competition.
If you're the best shot, you can win the Winchester seventy three, the
Priceless Gun, and Jimmy Stewart and his enemy in the movie compete for it.
And then sooner or later, I won't give you the spoiler, you
find out a they have a deep, dark secret in their past and they
are Jimmy Stewart wins the gun, but the other guy steals it, and
so the whole movie is about getting the gun back. And it's set up
against like a Indian Wars of the eighteen seventies, and which are the are?
I think the official name for those wars, sam is the Great Indian
Wars. There's a banner for them in the American Legion Hall in Hollywood that
shows, like all the wars, if you belong to the American Legion,
you can if you're a veteran, you belong to the American Legion. But
if you're a son of a veteran you can become you can be a member
of the Sons of the American Legion. I'm in that, so I go
there a bit. I went there on Memorial Day. They have a big
banner that next to the World War Two Banner and World War One and the
Civil War and then the Great Indian Wars. So it might not be politically
correct, but it's certainly glamorous. So this is about the Great Indian Wars
and the Chief of the Indian the Indians. Can you take a guess of
what kind of actor they got to play the Chief of the Indians? Sam
a very white one. How about Rock Hudson? Who anyone, Wow?
So he's so white, he's gay? Is that's hot? Yeah, that's
pretty hot. So he's like he's he's so he's he's like shirtless if you
want to see shirtless Rock Hudson. He plays an Indian chief. Um that
is, you know, just wreaking havoc on the on the settlers. And
then there's like surprises in it, like uh, Tony Curtis playing a nothing
role as a small bit role as a soldier under the name Anthony Curtis before
he became famous. And then Will Gear, who plays the grandpa on The
Waltons um but twenty five years before he was an old guy in The Waltons,
He was an old guy in this movie. Will Will Gear. Yeah,
he ran a theater off to Panga back in the day the will gear
at theatric and Botanical. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually met him
on the set of The Waltons when I was his young boy and my brother
took me to see watch The Waltons get filmed in early seventies and I was
just so amazed by I just sat there and go, I want to make
television. This is this is what I want to do, and ended up
doing it. I wasted a little time in the music business, but you
know what, music business, pretty glamorous makes money too. Speaking to the
music business, let's take a detour and talk about the Foo Fighter Sam.
What did they do while you were gone? The Food Fighters were big news
because they announced their new drummer. And you know, Taylor Hawkins passed away
last year, and you know they didn't he was in the band for fifteen
years or something, so no one knew what they were going to do.
They had a memorial two memorial concerts where every drummer in the world played songs
with them, and the winner in the search was mister Josh Freeze, the
drummer of the Vandals. So what this happened in? Yeah, so Josh
Freeze, the drummer of the vandals is now the permanent drummer of the Food
Fighters. Wow. So yeah, while you were dead to the world,
this was big news. It was on network news, it was on all
the papers and the The interesting thing about it, for for you and for
everybody listening, is your humble host Joe Sclante made the deal for him to
join the Food Fighters. Yeah, and I made it back in January.
So I had to keep this secret for like five months. Wow, who's
the drummer? Who's the drummer of the Food Fighters? Who is it?
Who's going to be? Who's who? Do you think it's gonna be?
Josh? I go, I don't know, how would I know? So
sometimes people will ask me to make these deals. I mean I do.
I was a deal maker in television I made I certainly made dozens of deals.
As the owner of a record label with all the artists, I did
all the negotiating, did tons of negotiating and television. I made the deals
for the new the latest addition to Avenged sevenfold, mister Brooks Whackerman. I
made that deal, and that would deal is like this deal, they want
to keep it secret, they want to keep it confidential, so they ask
me because I'm not part of the law firm. I don't have a secretary
that's going to leak it all that kind of stuff. I just do it.
I made the deal for the most recent member of Metallica, mister Robert
Rahel, and so that's a lot of little side business I got gone is
making rockstar deals. And now Josh Freeze. Yeah, so I flew out
to New Hampshire to watch his first show and basking Mike Glory it's all about
me and I got to hang out with everybody, and I've never seen a
guy. These guys fit together so perfectly. And after they played a few
songs, you could just see the looks on the band members faces of like,
wow, did we make the right choice? Yeah, so here's two.
You'll be seeing it if you look on YouTube and stuff like that.
You'll see a lot of salutes and like, he's getting very good reviews.
Everybody them. There were signs up saying Josh, welcome to the Fumile.
I guess it's a fumile And they made a cool intro when they announced it.
They made a video where they had all these clues where they were rehearsing.
But you couldn't see who the drummer was and the rehearsal. But then
people would come in with clues like Tommy Lee walked in with a Vandal shirt
on and some PF Chang's delivery, which is one of Josh Freeze's trademarks is
PF Changs fetish. And then another guy walks in with the poodles. He's
got a bunch of here's your poodles, and then then by then you should
know it's Josh Freeze the poodles and the PF chains and the Vandals shirt.
Um, so there you go now, and people ask it will he still
play with the Vandals? That was what I was because yeah, well,
well well of course he's allowed to because who made his deal? Um.
But we you know, Josh free is always in somethings and stings and the
offsprings and devo. He's in a perfect circle and we kind of just let
him go off and then we use a substitute when he's gone, and then
when he comes back, like if he has any days off and we have
a show, then he plays that kind of stuff. Um. So we'll
be playing July third at the glass House and Pomona for a special Third of
July celebration, and we'll be using the drummer from Avenged Sevenfold because they're not
on tour that day, but the Food Fighters are on tour that day,
so we just kind of pick and choose, and if we run down,
we run out of drummers, then we just don't play. So that's the
big music news. I got other music news. But let's take a break
and we'll come back and we will talk more about the movies and TV and
all that kind of stuff. Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood, Joe Escalante Live
from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, across the street from a
Wiener Schnitzel that sells beer. Wow, we're continuing on. We're gonna go
back to the movie business. We were talking about Food Fighters because I'm very
excited to have Josh Freeze in the Food Fighters. And yeah, I mean,
what a great group of guys. Just just Chris Shifflet from No Use
for Her Name is in the band. You've got Pat Smear from the Germs.
It's just and then you know Dave Dave girl has been in punk bands,
been in Nirvana. I mean, you know, it's just very cool.
Guy's got a formula for writing rock hits. Doesn't see to be slowing
down. All right, let's go back to the movies. Tom Cruise has
got a problem, Sam. While you were gone, I don't know,
maybe you didn't hear about this, but Oppenheimer. The biggest movies of the
year that have yet to be released maybe Barbie, A Mission Impossible seven and
Oppenheimer from Chris Nolan. Now you've seen Chris Nolan movies, right, yes,
I have. They're those very complicated movies where you watch them and then
you have no idea what the movie was about. Like it was the one
that came out during the pandemic. Tenet was Inception, No no, no,
Tenant Yeah yeah, yeah. Inception is another bizarre one. Yeah,
I mean every yeah, Tenant right in the middle of the I saw it
in the middle of the pandemic, and I was like, what the hell
did I just see? I knew I would need to see it four times
to figure out what was going on there. Every once in a while he
makes a movie where you can tell what's going on, like Harry Styles,
Dunkirk and Interstellar. Almost I almost knew what was going on in that One
Dark Knight. I don't watch those things because I do, and now I
know why. I don't know what's going on if he's making them. But
Oppenheimer is about the guy who developed the nuclear technology behind nuclear bomb, so
that will be fun and cheery, I guess. But he always picks this
one week in July to open his movies, and he's got a lot of
pull. He can just say, I want my movie released on July twenty
first. That's what he does. Also on that date is the Barbie Movie.
Now, many people say the Barbie. The Barbie movie is gonna crush
it. It's gonna beat Oppenheimer. That's the smart money. Did you know
that, Sam? Yeah, there's a lot more little screaming girls that want
to go and spend their money to see a movie like that. When Oppenheimer,
that's a kind of movie that you I think you could get just as
much out of it watching it at home as you could in on a big
screen. I disagree there because of his you know, the production values.
Um, but are you saying I'm a little screaming girl because I want to
see Barbie a little bit? Well, okay, that's fine, that's fair.
Fair, Um, so but to me, it's like that day,
what are you going to do? Are you gonna go see Oppenheimer first or
Barbie first. I'm a little bit torn. I would go see Oppenheimer.
You I think I would see Openheimer first, But then you think my wife's
gonna want to see Oppenheimer first, So you know how it's gonna go.
Now, I see that's the thing I'm gonna I have a daughter, so
Barbie is definitely on the list of movies that are gonna be seen. It's
just I'm I personally am much more and I'm biased. My flavor of disaster
porn. Are watching old nuclear footage, old nuclear chest footage, so I
have a like I'm like, yeah, Oppenheimer, rock on. Oh I
love it when I'm doing my TV my doing my TV shows and there's a
nuclear aspect to it, like this monster could have been created by a nuclear
explosion or this alien. These aliens were warning about nuclear explosions. And then
I get to go into the archives and search the best nuclear explosions that money
can buy. And I have pretty much an unlimited budget to buy nuclear explosions,
so I don't have to get a cheap one off of YouTube. That's
one of my favorite things. Yeah. Okay, So Mission Impossible seven is
coming out on July twelfth, and now, so you have Barbie Oppenheimer on
the twenty first, you got Mission Impossile on twelve. Now Tom Cruise's problem
is that he's releasing it on the twelfth. It goes into these Imax theaters,
which is I think it's like about a third of the box office comes
from these Imax theaters. They're called plfs, Premium large format screens. Okay,
PLF. That's a new word I learned this week. So the plfs
and they're up charges, are are very crucial to all movies because you know,
that's a lot of box office because you're you're charging way more and it's
all profit. You know, after these things are installed, it's just like
a big you know, it's a it's a windfall of money. So on
July twelve, he gets into a bunch of screens, these plfs, and
then on July twenty first, he gets kicked out of all of them.
He's he's kicked out, Yeah, and he's only on regular screens. He's
kicked out because Christopher Nolan has wrapped up not just a portion of the IMAX
screens, he gets all of them, of the IMAX screens in the country
will go to Oppenheimer. So, uh and and how do you think this
makes Tom Cruise feel a little upset? I would say, I'd say betrayed,
bewildered. How do you think it makes him feel? Yeah, he's
um. So he starts making calls. He's calling. I mean he's a
paramount guy. Oppenheimer's in a universal guy. He calls. He starts calling
people and saying, hey, uh, why don't you push back? This
will change the reach trying to get up. He's trying to get Christopher Nolan
to change the release date when this guy has always has the same release date.
So Cruiz is personally calling around to exhibition and studio executives, per multiple
sources, and according to one top execut Cruz has asked rivals to relinquish the
premium long form long formats UM screens or plfs, or even move the release
dates for the good of the entire theatrical business, something that is just not
going to happen. But it's bizarre, right, Yeah, I if I
was Tom Cruise, I'd consider moving it back to the fourth of July open
because that's when more people have time to go and do that stuff. Yeah,
I don't know when what's on fourth of July, but there's gotta be
a reason. I don't know, but it's you know, it's hard.
There's Yeah, he probably thought the twelfth is fine. There's probably something on
the fourth that he didn't want to compete with. So now he's going to
the twelfth and now he realized he probably didn't realize he's going to be booted
out of every PLF. Okay, PLF Changs is my favorite restaurant, and
like I don't go to the same place as Josh Freeze eats. Okay,
here's some television news. Let get out of that right now, and then
some TV stuff. This is a cool story. Actually it's not a cool
story. Actually, we're almost from out of time too. A woman is
suing American Idol over unpaid wages and royalties, unpaid wages and over time based
on her audition process to American Idol. Should American Idol audition auditioners get paid
at least minimum wage and overtime compensation? Um, well, we'll talk about
that when we come back. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood Joe Scalante Live from
Hollywood with the Business End of Show Business, every Sunday from five to seven,
right here on KiB eleven fifty on your AM dial, and all over
the world on iHeartRadio. All right, Sam, we were talking about the
American Idol audition process. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of
be here, wear this, be on call, stay here all day,
get humiliated, and then do you get any money for that? No?
I think traditionally everybody agrees you don't get any money to go audition for something.
They're not going to pay you to audition, right right. But this
girl, her name is Normandy Vamos and if you if you remember her on
the American Iol, I still watch it. Maybe some people don't, but
she was the girl that had an extremely high voice when she spoke and then
a crazy low voice when she sang. So she starts singing and it just
makes Katy Perry get up out of her chair and walk out of the room.
She thinks she's being set up. She because I will not be set
up. It's just too much. But when they get down to it,
she's a very good singer and she has a crazy high voice. She has
a full personality, so they all vote her to Hollywood. Okay, now
maybe she should get paid when she gets to Hollywood. Would you agree to
that? Yeah, I think that maybe you could once they make it past
that first initial audition round. Yeah. Yeah. Now you're a cast member.
Now you're a cast member. You're on TV. So they don't pay
them for auditioning. But it is a lot of work. And then here's
what happened to her. So you can make arguments, well, they should
pay them for the auditioned thing after a certain after if they end up on
TV. Maybe I don't know, but they don't. Then they tell her
she's she's going to Hollywood. You're going to Hollywood. Now, this is
a little something about American Idol that I didn't know that I will reveal to
you now that has come out in all this. Sometimes you might notice if
you watch it, you're going to Hollywood. People you don't see them in
Hollywood. But you figure they can't show everybody, so maybe they just didn't
didn't make any good TV moments. But what happens is they tell anybody they
want, you're going to Hollywood. Then later they decide who's going to Hollywood
based on how many people they have and what the who the what they want
to do. So if they all three stand up and say you're going to
Hollywood, it does not mean you're going to Hollywood. So with her,
they just called her and say, hey, guess what, You're not going
to Hollywood. She was very gracious about it on her social media, but
then she got a lawyer. Guys like, this is BS. She should
get paid. You know. They they told her what to wear, they
told her what to do, they made her stick around, then they made
TV out of her, and then they sold commercials for that TV time.
Why doesn't she get any money? And then at that point I'm thinking,
Um, I know it's silly to be paid for auditions, but you know
where we where do we draw the line? So this law suit was filed
in February. I missed it, so I'm bringing it to you now,
and the court system moved slow. So we'll follow this and we'll find out,
um what you know, where do we where do we draw the line?
Well, here's another aspect of it. They they're making revenue off of
YouTube as well, and it's not like they could, you know, make
the videos and stuff for TV. That's not going to last very long.
But I'm looking at this right now. She's got two point eight million views
on YouTube. They're monetizing that. Yeah, that's where the money should be
coming from. And it's just checks. There's just her clip for four minutes.
It has nothing like it has the judges reacting and nobody like that.
It's nobody else singing, it's just her, And they're monetizing that. Yeah,
that's where the money should be coming from. Something's off. Yeah,
so I would be interested to see where this goes. Now, would you
have to pay everybody to audition? You know, we don't want that world.
We don't want to live in a world where you can't have a TV
show because it's too expensive to pay everybody to audition. Well, and you
remember William hung right, You remember that dude from one of the earlier seasons.
He made an an album based off of the audition that he did that
everybody would say it was like, you know, from a singing standpoint,
wasn't that great, But it was a viral sensation and he knew how to
maximize it and to profit off of it himself. Oh yeah, ye had
a celebrity poker career. Yeah, um okay, so all right, so
we'll follow that another news. I'm going to whip through some stories because we're
almost done with the hour m Vice Media. I think we've reported on this
there there. You ever watched the Vice Channel, Sam, Yeah, they
had a couple of decent shows, but yeah, not that much good stuff.
Yeah, well, also made for people. Would you agree they don't
watch cable Their their demographic is people who is chord cutters? Absolutely, absolutely
right. Yeah, the whole business built an a whole empire built on chord
cutters for cable TV. Yeah, they had an HBO show that one made
a little more sense. So then this empire gets built and this Shane I
forgot his last name, Um, it becomes a multimillionaire um, probably hundreds
of millions of dollars he makes off this, and everybody's investing in it.
Everybody wants this demographic, the cool hit people, but they don't watch cable.
So the thing I mean, I looked at it from the beginning,
I said, this is a disaster. These people don't watch cable, so
you can't who would advertise to these people they're not watching? And the ratings
were terrible, and it all turned out, it all bore out to be
true true I could find if we had that kind of a system, my
predictions that this would never last, and it not only did. The problem
is it did last, and they kept pouring more money to it and going
to other investors, and so many people people lost their careers by making decisions
to invest in this. Now they were they were valued at one point at
four billion dollars. Now there there there. People don't want it for free,
So what's going to happen. It looks like the biggest creditor, which
is George Soros, who many people think is like, you know, an
evil, manipulating foreign wizard, he has to take it over for his two
hundred and twenty five million dollars in debt, and all of a sudden he's
got to run and he's saying, this is the worst case scenario. We
don't know how to run this, we don't know what to do with it.
We need another buyer. So they're looking for another buyer. No buyer
is going to come, but they're looking. And so it'll be interesting to
see if you're a creditor and then you take you invest in something like Vice
TV, and then you end up acquiring the assets, what do you do
with them? His original plan was to sell them off in pieces, but
people are saying nobody wants the pieces. It's a toxic asset. They're saying,
yeah, and it's toxic because it doesn't make any money. It only
loses money. People have lost, you know, they've got a lot of
trouble for investing in this. So Vice TV. Yeah, that's a YouTube
channel. If anything, they shouldn't have gone table with that because the people
that watch it are going to be likely to just want to get ten minute
bits and chunks of stuff on the toilet watching YouTube. Yeah, it's a
it's a racket. Um, okay, let's see. We don't have a
lot of time life. I'm gonna go a little bit to the Taco bell
Um thing. I don't know if we've talked about that Taco bell Maybe while
you were gone you missed this. Taco Bells is petitioning the court to allow
anybody to use Taco Tuesday. And there's a company called Taco Jahns in I
forget where it's in Montana or something. Taco John's trademark Taco Tuesday at one
point. Now, the trademark office shouldn't have granted that it's two it's it's
just they should have known. Don't don't give one person a Taco Tuesday trademark.
That's stupid. But the trademark office does this all the time. So
Taco Bell is petitioning to have it, challenging it, saying everybody should be
allowed to use it, and so many people do use it that it might
lose its protection just because they haven't policed everybody. They haven't policed at all.
Now Lebron James has made a Taco Tuesday peel. He's siding with talk
Bell saying everybody should be allowed to be used Taco Tuesday. But here's the
problem. Lebron James actually try to trademark Taco Tuesday once. Oh jee yeah
yeah, So anyway, but I could go on and on about Lebron James.
That's I don't know. You know. What I think is that it
was never it should have never been granted. They should get rid of it.
And the reason why Taco Bell has to go through the courts because a
lot of people like if you and I opened to taco place, we can
use Taco Tuesday. You see it all the time. They can't police all
those but but if if Taco Bell does it, oh yeah, they're going
to go after that because of the deep pockets, the deep hot pockets of
Taco Bell. Other than that things, before we get out here, Queen
is negotiating the deal that they claim is a billion dollar deal to buy their
catalog, to sell their catalog of music publishing and sound recordings. That is
like about five hundred million more than the like the the Springsteen and Bob Dylan
and other ones that have that have come up for sale. And that's because
these songs, like the Queen songs, we Will Rock You, you know,
um Way Hamium Rhapsody, these are like they pay off like a broken
slot machine from all the sync licenses and movies and stadiums playing them and all
that kind of stuff. So we'll follow that. A lot of people say
billion dollars number was floated just to drive the price up, but it's not
real or they don't have the right to sell all of it because they've sold
off some little pieces. So we'll follow that too. And I think,
um, I think that's about it for us in this segment. But there's
always more, and make sure you check out the podcasts. I will now
leave you with just a taste of the greatest song ever written, and we'll
see you next time.