Joe's Goalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, across the
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then later on it's a podcast and you can hear it right now live all
over the world in iHeartRadio. Sam is with me. Good afternoon, Sam,
Good afternoon. How are you doing, Joel? Thank you. Good
to be in Burbank. That's good to have you in Burbank. You got
a tour of Burbank from what I understand, Yeah, I gotta. I
got a Tesla and you just kind of tell it things and you get used
to it. Yeah. I go to KFI in Burbank and it went somewhere
in Burbank. I don't know. I was like, kind of, I
don't know you would call that. Did an auto drive you here? Yeah?
Yeah, you just which is really good when you've had a couple of
drinks, because then you push the like you're I mean, there's no swerving.
Interesting, you can't swerve, so not that I condone that even if
you wanted to. So. All right, So we talk about show business
here and we usually start with the movies, and this week in the movies,
number one movie in America right now is Transformers Rise of the Beast.
Did you see this, Sam? I did not. I didn't either.
It's hard. It's gonna be hard to get me to see that. Yeah,
I from what I understand, the people who saw it were saying it's
the best one that has been out since the first one. And I didn't
like the first one. So this is this isn't helping things for me.
And then there's no Michael Bay. There's no shy La buff. I think
Michael Bay is a producer, but he's not the director. Not that that
would make a difference to me. I'm just pretending I'm really cool. Does
that mean he made money explode? Probably Michael, But you know, um
the director McGee, you've ever heard of him? No, Charlie's Angels,
it's famous. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, I saw that in Japan,
by the way. Yeah, it was a Yeah, it was on
like one of there's two channels that showed movies, and that was one of
the movies that can I hear in Japan they worship the Charlie's angels like goddesses.
I wouldn't be surprised. Oh my gievest always call my office and tell
me he was Michael Bay and they would to get through my assistant. That's
a little Hollywood story for you. Number two is Spider Man Across the Spider
Verse. This is the movie that Sam saw this week. Am I right?
Sam? No? And that's a shame, but you are partially correct.
It's the movie that I tried to get tickets for but it was sold
out and several screens. And I live like like upstairs from one theater,
but a block away from two more and all of them were booked. So
I had the same problem. Yeah, so I had a second choice,
and I'll tell you about that what that one is. Okay, after we
get down through the top ten. Number three is The Little Mermaid. That
was my second choice. And so you saw The Little Mermaid? No,
that was sold out as well? Yeah, I had to go. I
had to drive to Carson to see The Little Mermaid. Wow. I live
in Huntington Beach and that's you know, that's about twenty four minutes away from
my house. To go see The Little Mermaid. We talked about The Little
Mermaid last week. It's really good. There's a lot of people that are
criticizing it, and that when I read those reviews about how they're criticizing it,
and then I just feel like, oh, I'm stupid. I sat
through this movie and enjoined it. Yeah, I'm dumb. Well, and
I saw a lot of people trying to sell the idea that it was a
flop somehow, and it made almost what a worldwide almost a half a billion
dollars since it's opened. I can't see any universe worth that's a flop.
Well, it dropped off. If a movie drops off over fifty percent and
it's week, some people start saying it's a flop. So I think that
it dropped off like fifty eight percent or something like that. So maybe that's
where they're they're going with that. I think. I think the reason why
it was sold out was because everybody wanted to see Spider Man. Yes,
that was sold out, and then they the backup was Little Mermaid, and
for me, that one was sold out. So continue with the list.
I'll tell you where eich One. I stopped on the Boogeyman is number five.
Nope, that one has done twenty four million. I don't know what
it's about. I mean, I guess I get the Boogeyman, and I've
heard of the Boogeyman since I would you know any is there any like special
lore or a reason why I should see this? I have no idea what
it's about. All I know if I'm guessing it's a horror movie. Just
based off of that. I don't pay too much attention to horror movies.
Fast X is still high up there, taking in five million over the weekend,
and Super Mario Brothers taking in another two million. About my Father Number
eight with Robert de Niro, is that the movie you saw? No okay,
movie's got a total of ten in three weeks. Robert de Niro doesn't
mean box office success at this stage in his career. Why do you think
that is too old? Too old? Also, the kind of role it
is, it's like the kind of it doesn't seem like the kind of movie
that would grab attention. It's not a Scorsese movie. It's not something that
never meet the fockers without that doesn't look as good without a focker. Yeah,
yeah, exactly. The machine Sony movie was number nine, and then
Past Lives as a movie. I don't know anything about someone. I saw
Guardians of the Galaxy, The Guardians. Oh wait, number four is Guardians
of the Galaxy. I'm so sorry. I saw that with the kids and
with their mom, and it was It was a lot of fun. It
was a really fun movie. It was a good way to close out the
trilogy. It gave it had a lot of fan servicing movements, but the
whole movie was solid. I would say it was good then, but there
was like kind of at the end. I was when they started talking like,
Hey, I'm gonna do this, I'm going to do that. Yeah.
I was like, what do you wait? Wait all this Like I
had to sit through so much stuff and then we've got eight seconds of your
whole future and everything that's gonna happen to you people. Yeah, did you
stay for the very end? I got through the first post scene credit,
but the kids, it was about ten thirty kids were too sleepy, so
we didn't stay. I didn't stay for the last one, but I googled
and looked up what it was and I thought it was cute. Yeah,
he's eating cereal or something and it had a reference on the newspaper to the
Christmas special that they did. Really yeah, because they brought Kevin Bacon on
to cheer him up. Yeah, he was feeling a little uncheery during Christmas.
A little bit of Kevin Bacon in there, just so you can have
Kevin Bacon in there. Yeah. Okay, So that's the top ten movies
Guardians. I saw it. I went on the ride at Disneyland on Friday,
So I'm all guardians up now from my letterbox on my letterbox account.
We will have let's have it up here. But I remember what I saw.
I saw a film called The Naked Spur directed by Anthony Man, starring
Jimmy Stewart and Vivian Lee. This is a movie from nineteen fifty three.
It's a classic western, and it's on the Criterion Channel right now. If
you like having the most expensive streaming service in the world, you can get
the Criterion Channel and watch really good prints of mostly old movies, classics and
some that are just like not classics. But if they're having a like a
retrospective of someone's career, they'll show their good films and their bad films.
But Anthony Mann is a director who teamed up with Jimmy Stewart at one point
in his career, where Jimmy Stewart, what thought, you know what,
I gotta get away from this good guy image. I need to play more
complicated characters. So he did a couple of westerns. I've seen the I
also saw the Winchester seventy three, same duo working together. I saw that
one like last week. So I'm kind of going through the whole Criterion channel
of Jimmy Stewart and Anthony Mann and Jimmy Stewart. You know, he's not
playing a good guy. He's playing a kind of a just this guy who
he's really a bounty hunter in this movie, and he's searching for this guy,
and of course there's some secret relationship he has with the guy he's searching
for. It's hard to see a picture Jimmy Stewart in a role that isn't
him being an upstanding human. He is in this movie. He is like
the two movies I've seen, he's kind of more not really upstanding or not.
He's kind of like you and me, Hey, look I've been wronged
a little bit, or I'm trying to make some money so I'm going to
go and make the money and I'm not gonna just be I can't just run
around being a do gooder of all do gooders. I'm just normal. I
need my money and am I gonna kill someone or uh sacrifice my values?
No? But I'm also not a pushover. And I think that's um kind
of the the roles he's looking for. We'll see if he gets into anything
darker, won't we because I'll probably watch all of them. Now. I
watched another film called The Graduate. Um, you know this is just when
you're on Criterion, you know you're finding all you're finding. You're looking at
the movies, and then they'll always said, like for the Graduate, there's
maybe five extra footage things of of you know, the director talking about Mike
Nichols as a director talking about the Graduate. Then there's the actors. Okay,
here's here's the fun part about that, and then we'll take a break.
Now. In The Graduate, we have Missus Robinson played by Anne Bancroft,
and we have Dustin Hoffman playing Benjamin, the actual graduate, and Bancroft
is an old woman seducing him. How old you think she was when she
played that role? Of the old woman seducing Dustin Hoffman. I'm gonna go
with thirty seven, very good, thirty six who I was so close?
How old are you? I'm forty four. You're too old for missus Robinson,
I understand. How do you feel about that? I'm okay with that.
Okay, she's hunting down teenagers. Pardon me, I'll skip that one.
So you know, that's always a fun movie to watch. And I
might have watched one or two others, but we'll just skip those and we'll
take a break with Check Traffic. I'm gonna come back with the news of
the week in Hollywood, Joe's Belante Live from that place. Joe's Bellante Live
from Hollywood, by Hollywood, Mean Burbank. All right, we're still talking
about the box office this weekend. The kind of saying that Transformers is almost
it's almost a tie with them. So it's like the second week of trans
of Spider Man in the first week of Transformers. Yeah, I believe,
and but so Spider Man is so strong, it's still almost beat the Transformers,
but it's like a it's very close, but Transformers is the winner.
And the people that we're talking about superhero fatigue. We're wrong because that between
the Guardians and this new Spider Man movie and the Transformers, the box office
that some people were saying it goes off to a slow start in the summer
is just doing just fine. And then Morner Brothers has the DC film The
Flash next weekend, and we'll see how that does. And with it looks
like it'll probably do well. I expect it not to do not as well
as say Guardians, But if it's a good movie, you're going to see
a second weekend that's super strong, because everybody's expecting a DC movie not hit
very well. Yeah, so they're not going to go the first weekend maybe
Yeah, and then what like some people through word of mouth, if it's
a good movie, then you'll see some good numbers that second weekend. That's
what I think, if it's a good movie. And then the movie that
was number ten was Past Lives. That's an A twenty four movie. Now
A twenty four is the only studio, small studio that people will go see
a movie just because it came out on A twenty four. I'm kind of
one of those people. If I see an A twenty four movie, they
sell t shirts Okay, people wear a twenty four T shirts. So people
don't run around with Sony T shirts unless they got it for free. Let
me let me, let me back that up. People buy A twenty four
shirts. You know, if you can paramount shirt because you live there or
you work there, then that's different. Anyway, let's move on to television.
In television this week, one of the big stories is that it falls
right in the purview of this show is Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News and then,
I mean leaving is no big deal. He got fired. They said
we're gonna, we're gonna part ways with Tucker Carlson. He's a news guy
on Fox News channel. If you don't know who I'm talking about, and
he would get about you know, two and a half million people every day
watching in his hour long program, which is a lot considering on CNN during
the same time, there was probably like a couple hundred thousand people watching,
so he's he was a jog ernaut. They fire him, and no one
knows the real numbers, but people throw out the number twenty million dollars that
his contract. He was getting paid twenty million a year. They have him
up until like the end of twenty twenty four or something like that, so
that's this year, that's next year. They fire him. But in TV
and in any and it's like this where your contract. This is a freedom
of contract case, but it's going to go to court or at least it's
going to be really hotly contested. It's an employment contract that pays him twenty
million a year. Let's just use these numbers that are floating around. It
doesn't really matter what it is. And they fire him. Now, if
they're going to fire him, he's got a contract. They gotta pay him,
so he doesn't go, Okay, you can fire him all you want.
I negotiated for a guaranteed twenty million year through the end of twenty twenty
four, and they're like, okay, we'll give it to you, but
you have to stay home because if you if you read the contract, and
I've negotiated hundreds of these talent agreements. That was all I did at CBS.
I'm still doing them here and there. I did the Foo Fighters drummer,
as we all know because I tell everybody about it. Every five minutes.
You can tell someone to stay home. That's a normal in a in
a talent contract. We're going to pay you. You stay home, well,
I don't want to stay home. Well you have to. Well,
you can do whatever you want. You can't compete with us. You can
go work at the flower market, knock yourself out, as long as you
don't work in television or in digital. And now we have the language has
been floating around for Tucker's contract digital, any kind of image. We know
what they mean. They mean the show you have on Twitter. You can't
go to Twitter and recreate your show. And because you're competing, it's a
non compete thing. I'm paying you twenty million dollars to either be here or
nowhere. And if I say you're not here and tell you to stay home,
you you you stay home or you do something else. We can't prevent
you from working. You know, you can be in a Broadway musical and
play the guy on the music Man and seeing seventy six trombones three shows a
night, uh, seven days a week, four shows on Saturday. Go
ahead, you can do that, but you cannot compete. And here's the
agreement. Sign it or don't have your lawyer explained it to you. So
I believe that's the the contract that he signed. Now, if you're Tucker
Carlson, you have to m you gotta think about this because you're you'll go,
okay, well that's my contract. If I make a deal with him,
and say, okay, how about if I make a deal with you,
don't give him my twenty million and I'm going to take a job at
CNN, And they're gonna go, wait, we'd save twenty million a year.
Let him do it. And then someone comes in and says, don't,
look, we already know we're paying this twenty million dollars. Don't get
don't we're losing some ratings already. Don't let him go to our competition and
destroy us that way. Make him sit home, Like okay, all right,
all right, Tucker. Here, we've all decided we're gonna have you
sit home and we're gonna give you your money. And that's just the deal.
And you know that's our right. Like if you pay someone to be
in Transformers and they don't work out, you can swap them out after you
start shooting, reshoot it, swap him out. You got to pay that
person, and you gotta pay the new person. But that's how creative things
are made all the time. So there they got to write to do that.
It happens all the time. I believe that's the contract. So Fox
News is now saying because he put this show on Twitter, he has breached
his contract, and from everything I know about this business, I think they
are probably right. Carlson's lawyers say this, Fox defends its very existence on
freedom of speech grounds. Now they want to take Tucker Carlson's right to speak
freely away from him because he took a social to most social media to share
his thoughts on current events. So that's what they're saying. Well, well,
he's not on a competing show. He's sharing his thoughts on current events.
But that's what he's paid to do, share his thoughts on current events.
That's his whole job. So if he does it on Twitter with ninety
two million impressions, it's hard to say that didn't count in the that language
in the agreement where they said, you can't, you know, go on
some digital platform. You can't do anything that is that looks you know,
that is sharing your your thoughts on any kind of media. So you're that's
a tough one, I think they. I think if it goes to court,
um talker loses but can he stay home. What if he stays home
and collects his money in a year and a half, he could be irrelevant.
People could move on and then he was kind of a character from another
era if he doesn't keep in the public. So he might be worth it
to him to just keep going on Twitter. Fight this, fight this,
fight this, and then come up with some kind of settlement down the road
because they don't want to go to court. Nobody wants his penniless money.
And then then he might lose twenty million million. I don't know what he
loses, but he has to stay relevant because that's about Bill O'Reilly. That's
a good point. I thought maybe the public would to get their appetites wedded
for him. The more you know, absence would make their heart grow fonder.
But I know you're right. It could be a Bill O'Reilly effact.
Yeah, absolutely could be selling gold and reverse mortgages for the rest of his
life. Joe's Goalante Live from Hollywood, Joe's Golante Live from Hollywood, every
Sunday in KiB eleven fifty on your AM dial. Okay, Actually, Sam,
we were talking about Tucker Carlson's contract. I have an excerpt from his
contract right now, that comes from Fox itself because they wrote a letter.
Um, they've gone public with what with the language? Ummm, so they
said this evening we were made aware of mister Tucker Carlson's appearance on Twitter.
Well, I don't know if they made this public or if I just got
my hands on this because of my sources, but you're going to hear it.
Pursue it. To the terms of the agreement, mister Carlson's services shall
be completely exclusive to Fox. He is prohibited from rendering services of any type
whatsoever, whether over the Internet via streaming or similar distribution, or other digital
distribution, whether now known or hereafter devised. Do you think that includes Twitter?
Can he come back and go, well, yeah, but this is
just me sharing my personal thoughts. Is it from the same account that he
had on when he was with Fox? Now the Fox that usually the Fox
personalities have an official Twitter and then they have their own personal one. So
yeah, he is sharing his thoughts on current events, now sharing your thoughts
on current events. Let me know, let me I'll say it again.
Does this does this think? Does this language to you seem like it would
include that he's prohibited from rendering services of any type whatsoever, whether over the
Internet via streaming or similar distribution or other digital distribution, whether now known or
hereafter devised digital streaming Internet. It's hard to think of something else. It
sounds like it's kind of cover all of the bases with the language. But
for me, the the line as if it's his corporate Fox News Twitter account
or if it's his personal I mean, well, they can just turn off
his Fox account. Yeah, that doesn't that so that that's I think that's
irrelevant. So they can just turn that off if it means account though.
Yeah, so you're saying, because it's his account, what if he starts
a network, then he can go on another network. Well, if he
starts a network, that would be a problematic because that's setting up competition,
But he's not. If it's his own personal Twitter, I don't think that's
competition. That's just his personal opinion. Well, you would be really good
on his legal team, but unfortunately you would be wrong. Explain please,
because I would like to he would like to be correct. He's prohibited from
rendering services of any of any type whatsoever over the Internet via streaming or similar
distribution or other distribute digital distribution, whether now an owner or hereafter devised,
he's prohibited from rendering those services. So he's going on Twitter and and and
getting ninety two million impressions. Um, he can. You can say that's
not competition, but you would have to go to court and say here's why
it's not competition. And even if it's not, say yeah, well he's
rendering services over the Internet. Who is he rendering services too? The people
who are the Internet. People on the Internet, anyone who's on the Internet
is rendering services to people who okay, watch the Internet. Okay, so
it's not in service of any corporation or anything. It's just to anybody who
is a consumer of Internet. He is not allowed to do it. I
mean, I think it's really easy. It's like you have Tucker Carlson on
your channel and people can either watch him on Fox News or they can go
on Twitter and watch him. Now, you tell him I'm going to pay
you to not do this job, and then he goes over on Twitter and
does it, and the same people that used to watch him are now watching
him over there. Yeah, so that's what you can't do. Now.
Like I said before the break, he knows that his lawyers know that,
and they can't just sit home and collect the money because at the end of
twenty twenty four, when he can go, when his noncompete thing is done,
he could be irrelevant and like Bill O'Reilly, who he's not as old
as Bill o'reiley and he's not as crotchety, So I think he would last
a little longer, but he would be diminished and he could be totally eclipsed
by a new person that comes along, a new, younger person, and
people are just going, wow, oh, Tucker Carlson's coming back. Oh
yeah, I remember that guy was. He was kind of interesting. So
he doesn't he's fighting to not have that happen. So he's so he's taking
a risk. He's going on Twitter. He's going to keep doing these things
and keep doing these things until it looks like it might bankrupt him or and
then Fox is going to be um, you know, sending cease and desists
and they're gonna go until they go like, well, I don't know how
much money do you want to spend because right now they could say, well,
okay, you're violated a contract, we're not paying you. And then
you could say Ah, if you're not paying me, I'm going on Twitter.
Um yeah, but that's you know, and and if they don't pay
him, it doesn't mean his contractum is depending how the country was a kind
of contract I write. I would say if you go, if you do
violate this, we're not paying you. But every other thing in this contract
still is valid. You still you're you still can't go on Twitter even though
we're not paying you. So if that does happen, where it becomes irrelevant
while until his until the noncompete expires and he ends up not being able to
get the same level of attention or fame or whatever following, would he be
able to sue for damages. No, because he has a contract that they
would They're they're willing to honor the contract, but for future earnings, they're
damaging his reputation or he's not able to stay. He agreed to that,
Okay, he had an arms length deal. Yeah, Hey, look,
you know you might be insane after a while, and so we'll pay you
and we're not gonna fight. We're not gonna have you declared insane by a
doctor. But we're just gonna have you go into time out and we're going
to pay you and you're gonna become irrelevant, and we know that in advance.
Have your lawyer tell you that, Hey, you know what could happen,
and this is what a good lawyer will do. Hey, client,
they could get rid of you and then you you're going to get your money,
but you're going to be irrelevant and you can't go anywhere else. You
can write books, and that's what you can do. So I would do.
But even though I think he's wrong and his team is wrong in their
interpretation of this agreement, I think they know they're wrong, but I think
they're doing the right thing and the smart thing, which is to stay in
the public eye and keep doing it and challenge it and challenge and challenge it
and come up with some kind of settlement without becoming irrelevant. Because if that
you're in that business, you got to stay on the air. If that's
what you want to do. If you want to be hated by uh,
you know, fifty percent of the country and that's half your kids, be
targets of you know, kidnappings and abuse and terrorism, m you gotta stay
in the public eye. So on the one hand, it's like, yeah,
I'm gonna get out of this game and just like relax and just raise
my kids. But you know, he's got a lot to say, and
he does say things that people want to hear, and they're different than anyone
else says on any other mainstream channel. So he's like, I gotta,
I gotta keep being that voice. And so I think he has some kind
of you know, mission that he think that he thinks he has to fulfill,
and maybe he does. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is toying with the idea
of just turning Twitter into a replace for CNN and Fox News and MSNBC and
all the cable news channels by inviting the fired people. And Rachel Maddow who's
not fired at all. So I think she makes about thirty five millionaire for
doing almost nothing because she doesn't have to work like she used to. But
she's got so she's got all this money and she's not going over to Twitter.
She's not going to leave her MSNBC deal. But if you got Don
Lemon and other people that were fired and they go and do their shows on
Twitter. We were talking about this in the break, you could, um,
maybe you could supplant the cable since the cable universe is shrinking anyway,
so that he might know something. Would this be the first time the lawn
musk knew something that we didn't know before it was going to happen. No,
it would. Sometimes he knows things that we don't know. I just
I want him to figure out how to keep the water from flooding the boardwalk
in front of my house, so without putting up a berm each year that
makes me not see the water from my ground floor. That's all I care.
I know he could do it with tunnels and drains. Oh yeah,
he has the money to do just about anything. So can he create Kenny
turn Twitter into a replacement for cable news? I think it's doable, absolutely
the He has the already the social media reach. All he has to do
is put in the infrastructure for being able to set up video programming, which
is already basically there. It's it's doable. It's just will it have credibility,
you know, one way or the other. If if he's gonna be
picking equal sides, everybody on both sides being able to free reign without having
any kind of editing or censorship, then I can see it working. I
can absolutely see it working. Do I think it's going to happen. I
don't know. He kind of think he says he wants he needs, he
wants a liberal anchor to come to balance out of the conservative eat Tucker Carlson.
Didn't. They used to have a show back in the day where they
would have like they had I think Tucker Carlson with a liberal Yeah, that
was like Crossfire. Yeah, so it was a Crossfire or they had other
shows similar to that as well. And it usually if it's like you could
tell what the political tinge of the network is, it's almost going to be
like everybody ganging up on the one person. So I can see it working,
but it has to be balanced. If not, then it's going to
just be another biased network. Well, if Don Lemon is in charge of
his channel and Tucker Carlson is in charge of his channel, then you switch
back and forth and it's just a place where you go. It's also one
of those that you go to the what to You got to hear what you
what you want to hear, and you tune out what you don't want to
hear. But that's the way it is now. See that's where I could
see the paying eight bucks for the blue check would now slowly become worth it
because right now it took something that was freely earned and meaningful. Now anybody
can go and buy it. Now it's meaningless for the most part, but
that can make it so that that's like your subscription base for programming that,
you know, like the Tucker Carlsons or the Rachel Rachel Madhous. That that
point, I can see it, you know, being justifiable for people to
put in the money for it, right or just watch the commercials. Yeah,
okay, let's take a break. We'll check the traffic. I'm dying
to know what's going on out there, and we'll be back with more.
Joe Scale Live from Hollywood. Joe Live from Hollywood, by Hollywood, you
mean Burbank two hours of the business end of show business. Actually watch Nacho
lib Libre this week too. One of the greatest movies of all times.
Sam, would you agree? Timeless, classic, so good? I bet
a little bit a cultural culturally, maybe appropriative and in today's hyper sensitive world,
could not be made today. Yeah, now, very much. A
movie that would be controversial if it was today, but at the time you
could tell the innocence behind it and so it's hard to hold Jack Black accountable
persons of the past, the especially when he's Bowser. Bowser, who's Bowser
from the Super Mario movie? Oh was at him? Oh? Yeah that
was him? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I was thought you meant Bowser
from Seanna. Nah. No, No, there's only one Bowser. Yes,
but I mean I'm a half Mexican, but the full Mexicans, I
know. I mean I hang a lot with a lot of full Mexicans.
I got full Mexican relatives. That movie is precious to them. They watch
it over and over and over because he just nailed it. Um. So
how do people feel about Casa Demipadre, the one with Will Ferrell? Just
confused? It's like, what are you talking? What is going on here?
They're not gonna watch that over and over. There's like this is weird.
But for me, I feel like that movie was made just for me.
It's funny for me. But yeah, and it's such a great name,
Cosa de me Padre. It's so every person that had one second of
Spanish can can understand it. Did you hear about this news over the last
week, the the Saudi Arabia golf company merging with the PGA. I heard
deep, I heard loose word about it. I know that they've the PGA
has been dabbling into going into Saudi Arabia more getting more of the oil money
out of there. Well, it starts with the Saudi's starting their own golf
league and then poaching golfers from the PGA by just giving him, you know,
backing up the truck of money and giving it. So they started poaching
them one by one, and then it caused a big fight that maybe never
could be healed. So many people saying, you're taking that Saudi money,
You're disgusting, and you're ruining the PGA. You're just thinking of yourself,
why would you work for these monsters. There's a lot of that. And
then I mean some sports hosts really like there's one guy they were talking about
where that guy just has to go, He just has to go away because
he was so vitriolic about the Saudi Saudi's being in the golf world. And
then I mean he was relentless. And then now the PGA and the Saudi
League are one Saudi's and I think if you make a deal with the Saudis,
would you say it's kind of like you've got to do with the Saudi's
say, now, well, if you're gonna yeah, the Saudis have enough
money to where this is the kind of thing where it's just a plaything for
them. Yeah, so if but respect yeah, but so they just want
the plaything to respect them. However, PGA, this is like lifeblood,
this is sustaining them. So yes, oh yeah, because so they just
kind of they they fought and they fought and they fought. But in the
end, the Saudis have so much money and the PGA can't really sustain their
business model. So they formed an alliance and with the Public Investment Fund.
And that's a okay, let me tell you something about the Public Investment Fund.
Sounds um, public investments fund? What's that? It's that's the Saudi
royal families. Um, we control everything thing, all the hotels, Yeah,
all them crazy tourist things they're building over there, like a in the
middle of the desert, they're building a ski resort. Oh, they already
have like a ski mountain. Yeah. And like they talk about carbon footprint,
that place's carbon footprint is like death. Oh they have an argument for
that too. They go, oh, we are doing this with the sustainable
resources and and it's it's very good for the earth. And then there's like
a hotel under a lake. You know, it's like wow, and that's
in the public uh investment funds. So now they're all part of that.
They're wrapped. They are just they're in it deep. So that one guy,
I mean the guy that was like, you know Saudi's or evil Saudis,
how does he how does he announce a golf match? Now he has
to go away? Yeah, I mean when and this came out of nowhere,
So I can imagine that guy just going I forgot his name, but
when he read you know, he picked up his phone and he thought,
leave golf. It's l I V that's the Saudi think merges with pea pga.
I mean, he just is just you know, heart must have just
sank, just like I guess I'm I'm toast. Uh That's that's not the
way you want to lose a gig. So people are furious because of the
Saudi record on human rights and the fact that they blew up two towers.
Uh they were called the World Trade Center. Um those are Saudi's basically.
Uh. So people are like, what are we doing here guys to me
and people are like, I like money. Well, wwe did the same
thing. They did a thing in Saudi Arabia and a few of the people
within the organization, some of the talent just did not want to go and
they didn't support it, so they just didn't go. And the women also
specifically, we weren't allowed to go. Don't get me started on the women
or the gays that they throw off a buildings. Yeah, um so,
but the money. People like money. And but then when you look to
the NBA and the deal they made with the Devil, which is the Chinese
Communist Party, Uh, that is a human rights disaster and they're beholden to
them. So this is um, they can't really throw stones. Yeah yeah,
wwe had the same kind of thing with China. John Cena did like
some apology in Chinese. Yeah, yeah, you had to. It was
either Mandarin or Cantonese. I can't remember, but yeah it was I think
it was Mandarin, but it was. Yeah, that was That's that's all.
So everybody's gotta, you know, think it through. How much does
that mean to you? These human rights abuses China, your iPhones, You're
want you want to boycott China forever. Your iPhones are My iPhone I I
found out is not only made by children, it's made of children. So
I have to live with that myself. I struggle with that every day.
Yeah, you have to use another kid's fingerprint to sign into your phone.
Well, the thing about these phones is they're so small and everything you have
to use the little tiny fingers of the of the children, the tiny hands.
It's really no way to replace that. Oh, it's the same thing
with Persian rugs. Oh, don't get me started. I went to I
was in Egypt. I did a tour of a rug place. You know,
they oh, come to I go. I know, I'm this is
gonna cost me at least a thousand dollars. All right, go to the
church. It's a rug school. It was how to make rugs in Egypt,
right by the over bright by those pyramids. I don't know if you've
heard of those. But and we went into the rug school and as the
little kids just learning, and they call it a school or is it a
slavery institution? But did they called it a school? And you know,
the kids looked healthy, and they looked happy, and they were learning a
craft. And my rug finally came. I had a rug made that was
the Giza Pyramids. They have all these things like, Okay, I want
this one with the pyramids, so I could like this, and then I
would like a this a flying saucer flying over oh man. They just thought
I was nuts, but they did it and arrived and I again walking on
it right now. Um. I got this rug when I was an Afghanistan
or Iraq. I think I got it when I was Iraq. Um which
is a depiction of the World Trade Center bombings on a on a Muslim prayer
rug. Wow, And it's just helicopters and it's towers coming down and I'm
like, what the hell is this? This is this is this is repulsive.
How dare you? How much is it? That would be five rupees
or whatever? They take over there? Here you go, I'll take two
anyway. It's in my museum of horrors at home. I step on it.
I have no respect for this rug. Step on it, step spit
on it. I spent on you rug. I step on you. Let's
take a break and we'll come back. We'll get a little more into Hollywood.
I got some ben Affleck and Matt Damon versus Donald Trump News Joe'scalante Live
from Hollywood. Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank,
across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel. It sells beer. And we are
two hours of the business, end of show business, every Sunday from five
to seven. This is our number two. Sam is here with me and
Sam let's see where are we? Where are we at? Ben Affleck Matt
Damon. This happens every we're getting into election season and candidates make appearances and
they use music, and whoever wrote the song always says like don't stop thinking
about tomorrow? Is that one of the ones I don't like any song that
would be used as a campaign. Yeah, most songs used in campaigns usually
kind of sucks, just make me sad. But anyway, don't stop thinking
about tomorrow. Born in the USA. Oh, these are not the kind
of music I listened to. But anyway, they're always written by people that
don't want to be involved associated with Republicans because that's not rock and roll.
So the one thing I usually explain on the show is if someone like Donald
Trump goes to Madison Square Garden and has a rally, he can play any
song he wants. He can play songs from people that hate him the most,
because the Madison Square Garden has purchased a blanket license to let anybody that
rents that place perform and cause to be performed all their compositions. And that
is just the system. And it's the system that as CAPA and b AM
I and C Sack and all Track and the one that's owned by Irving A's
off I forgot the name of that one, but that's the way they want
it. They've always argued for years that the only way to be able to
do this is with blanket licenses. And they've gone to the Supreme Court and
said, we have to have consent decrees that allow us to bypass anti trust
laws so that we can have these blanket licenses to make it easier to make
deals to have music performed at our arenas or restaurants or any place that has
a commercial purpose and a more than a mom and pop stereo system in their
establishment has to pay for a blanket license to play music. Now, the
people that write these songs, they don't recognize that. For some reason,
they forget about the blanket license and they go, I forbid you to play
my music. So everyone gets on their high horse because they just want to
tell people that they're are not supporting this political candidate, because they're getting letters
from people saying, why are you allowing this demon to use your sacred music
for to recruit people to vote for onerous candidates? And they're just dummies.
The blanket license is pretty easy to explain and understand. I just explained it
it to you people. But this story is different. Ben Affleck and Matt
Damon said that Donald Trump is using an entire monologue from the movie Air in
a commercial trying to raise money for his campaign. One of the here,
here's a couple of quotes from the did you see Air? No? I
have not okay? Well, in Air, there's things going on like you're
going to be remembered forever because some things are eternal, and your story is
going to make us fight and never give up. It's things like that Damon's
Oh yeah, he says money can buy you almost anything, can't buy you
immortality that you have to earn. Then they show Trump doing something. Then
then Matt, Then you hear Matt Damon's voice in a Trump commercial but you
know what, once they've built you as high as they possibly can, they're
going to tear you back down. It's the most predictable pattern. We build
you into something that doesn't exist, and that means you have to be that
thing all day, every day. You're going to be remembered forever because some
things are eternal in your story. It's going to make us fight and never
give up. Okay, that's pretty inspiring stuff. So he's trying the saying,
even Matt Damon and Ben Affleck know that you build someone up like Trump
and then you try to tear him down. Now, if I'm Donald Trump
and someone tells me you can't use that, you gotta get permission. You
need permission from the people who made the movie. You need to go to
the Screen Actors Guild and get some kind of license to for this reuse reuse
fees. I believe that's what they call it. There's a lot of things
you got to do. Donald Trump says, what's the fine for that?
Well, they could sue you. What's the most it could happen to me?
I don't know. You could go to court and you could they could
find you, and I don't know A couple hundred thousand dollars sounds good to
me. Uh, run it. So that's probably what he did. And
that's not what we stand for here at the Joe's Going to Live from Hollywood.
We stand for getting permission, not the whole idea of what. They
don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness. I don't like that. So
I think that's what they did here. And then they caused that Matt Damon
and Ben Affleck to come out and say we don't endorse this, and which
they should, and they did, and I don't know what's gonna happen.
That's interesting because we always talk about it with music, but this is the
first time I've ever seen it with a movie clip. A movie clip,
so that's he does he have to pay royalties to the writer of it.
What's the reuse fees WGA, SAG, d GA, all of them.
So if it's financially worth it to him to run that clip over and over
again and pay the fine on it, I'm sure he'll keep doing it.
But I don't think that's necessarily financially worth it. They find something else.
I know it's really inspiring, though, I think it's it's expiring because it's
it's these Hollywood if you're if you're Trump, you go, this is the
best because even those Hollywood guys know that I've been uh, you know,
wronged. They know, but they're h and I'm and they're gonna I'm gonna
use their I'm gonna put it, use their words to defend me and my
victimhood whatever anyway, and I'll pay, I'll pay the fine. So it's
going to be weird. It's going to be weird. I mean, because
you know everyone's gonna I mean, it's when you say it's not worth it,
it could be really not worth it, because if the DGA and the
SAG and everybody just goes after him, isn't one more problem in his hands
already being indicted right, left and center? Yeah, this one. But
do you think anyone I think he would listen if someone said, you know,
mister Trump, here's the scenario where this might just go on for so
long and not be worth it. Yeah. Those people, those people were
fired years ago, like the first people that worked for him. Yeah,
now, and they fired everybody. Choose him up, he spits him out,
He choose him up, he spits him out. Now what kind of
a d team is he got around him that that, you know, the
sounding board for these kinds of ideas. I think I saw something to the
effect of, he's been litigated against at least three thousand times. I get
the feeling that somebody who has been that, that has had litigation against him
that much, is usually going to ignore lawyers advice. Yeah, it's just
part of his his um. It's part of his world getting sued and getting
sued by these guys. And now though it's it is you could look at
it as heroic because this is now can be perceived by his fans as this
is UM election interference because they are trying to put the nomination that the guy
who's going to be nominated to run against the president. Uh, they're trying
to put him in jail so he cannot win, and that to them is
election interference. So he's a martyr. So every time they do this to
him, not this, but every time they do the other stuff to him,
like his files in his in his house or whatever, he's a martyr.
He gets more money, he gets more popular with the with the UM
base, but it's also um exhausting to people like me. I look at
the presidency of Trump, look at it objectively. With President Trump and Biden,
I think he was way better. It was way better. This is
the country is a disaster right now according to me. But he's exhausting.
To me, I would like him to go away. So and that's what
they're doing. I think to a lot of it is they're trying to exhaust
people and make them go away. Now is that? But to his people,
that's election inference, and it's it's wearing people down instead of just saying,
hey, let's go to the ballot box. If I was president Biden,
I would say, hey, all this is nonsense. His files and
all the nights, I'm going to pardon him, or just like, let's
let's not let's have an election. Let's have a free and fair election,
and let's not put the guy in jail. It's not it's just it's embarrassing.
But that's not going to happen. And I'm not running, and no
one calls me. Well, if I ever commit murder, I will soon
after announce my intention to run for president for president of the United States,
so that I can avoid punishment. Yeah, well, why not. They
worked for the Clintons Okay, Joe Scolante, lie from Hollywood. We're gonna
take a break, check the traffic. We'll come back. And we got
some deep fake porno issues that we got to talk about. Joe Scalante live
from Hollywood. As we speak, I'm accepting an invitation to be on the
Petros and Money Show, Sam Excellent. That's June sixteenth, between three and
six pm in Orange County. They're having a big, big broadcast in Irvine,
because Irvine is the place to be. We actually had them live at
my brother's brewery about two three months ago. What's that place called again,
Mountain something, Tarantula Hill, Tarantula Hill, Yeah, and I said it
was incredible. They do a great live show. So people down in Irvine
go and catch Petro some money and if Joe's there by all means catch them
going to be great. Oh yeah. So, so they're gonna be somewhere.
I guess it's gonna be exciting. Hanger twenty four Brewery. They like
breweries. Oh yeah, no, they definitely hit up all the breweries around
town. Fiday afternoon at the brewery, Hanger twenty four, Hanger twenty five,
whatever it takes, I'll be there, Matt money Smith. I surf
with him out in the mornings and Seal Beach. Nice. Yeah, let's
go out there. I can kind of something. He's always there earlier than
me. I can see him on the cam like the surf liing cam.
Sometimes I can pick him out. I think that's I'm getting out there.
But he's always there first. He's a real man. He surfs. I
catch a wave. This guy surfs. He's a pro. All right.
So let's talk about the uncomfortable business of deep fake porno's porno imagery, which
is the plague, the new plague coming down the pike. And um,
what's going on is people are taking your image and they're creating a porno pornographic
material and they are sending it to you or maybe like let's just say your
kid. Someone friends your kid and they make a deep fake porno of your
kid engaging in a sex act and it's there, it's your kid's face,
and they used it from getting images that they got off your kids Instagram and
they made a version of your kid and your kid is doing some things that
are disgusting and they tell the kid, if you don't give me some stuff
money, they extort them or they're gonna you know, disseminated everywhere, and
they make the kids pay. I mean, this is one of the things
that that's going on. They're making kids pay in like gift cards and whatever
they think a kid can get to not distribute that, And I think this
is something that we can't avoid really, So I think you've got to have
to take the power away from the from the extortionist and just say, hey,
all right, that's awesome, that's cool. Can I take it and
show it to all your friends and your parents, put it on your own
site, say look, someone tried to extort me. Because it's coming out
anyway, that's one way to handle it. You're a professional in this world
with your PhD candidacy, What do you think the solution is here? Oh
jeez that it's such a controversial and ethically like, there's so many pitfalls that
can come with this. If it's what do you think of my idea of
just go ahead and getting ahead of you? Well, if you're a celebrity,
I could see that being something that but if you're like a twelve year
old girl at Catholic school, absolutely not. What do you do? Just
keep paying the money they're gonna Oh well, this girl paid, so make
sure you destroy all copies of this deep fake we made of her. Is
it considered child pornography? I say yes, I don't care if it's fake
or not. It's child pornography. Yeah. Well if that's the case,
if it is to be child pornography, which I would agree with you on
that it would, then it would have to be subject to child porn laws.
So somebody has a deep fake porn video of somebody who's underaged on their
phone, then it would have to be subject to those same laws because those
a lot of times are images based off of real people. Yeah. Yeah,
I mean I don't care if if you get caught with fake kitty porn
or real kitty porn, it's still the same. The laws are designed to
prevent the actions that take place and the desires that that whips up in Chomo's
Yeah, well that's a prison for child molester. I don't know if you
know that. Yeah, no, I'm aware of the term. Yeah.
No, It's it's something where there's gonna be views on both sides of it,
just because there's going to be advocates for people who are maybe attracted to
miners but aren't going to act out on it. Oh, so you think
maybe there's a there's a argument for saying, let these people have the fake
stuff. It's not harming anyone, but it keeps them from acting out,
and they're gonna I think they they're gonna find it anyway, and then they'll
they'll they'll create a sex trafficking and this could even reduce sex sex trafficking.
Those people would say, I think people have made that argument. It's not
an argument I would agree with those are perverts. Yeah, it's there's gonna
be arguments. That's so until the laws are well defined on how to handle
this, there's gonna be arguments on either side of it. Because at the
end of the day, it is nobody actually getting harmed in the actual process,
nobody's physically getting exploited, and nothing necessarily horrible is happening. However,
it's still promoting the existence of this big problem. Yeah, it's not making
it go away. Yeah, And I talked about it during the break for
I do a lot of mental health work with people who were suicidal or people
who do cutting, and the one of the possible, you know, ways
to help treat people who are cutters is give them a red pen and instead
of cutting themselves, just draw the red line on them. It doesn't necessarily
give them the same release from tension that they have when they do the cutting,
but it's at least changing the behavior to one that's full of harm to
one that has very very limited harm. It's harm reduction. However, it's
still replacing one behavior with another one instead of addressing the root cause. So
those guys are making this stuff. They're from, uh, you know,
some like East What's that fake country that they made up for the all the
movies? Um? Which one? Agrabad? I think we were talking about
a couple weeks ago. The universe, Um, the multiverse that has this
fake country that just keep popping up in different movies. Oh, those uh
Agabod or whatever is um people are making it there. We can't get to
them. Yeah, you know, we can't use laws to get to them.
It's over the internet. What do you do if you're if if you
get one of these, do you pay them? I'm going to you,
Sam, and I'm asking you it depends on do I pay them? I
go to you. Look, I got this book. This is not me.
They would never do that. You turn them in, turn them into
who they live an agabod. That's if you try to turn these people in,
nothing's gonna happen. You can't go. What are you gonna walk into
a police precinct. They're not gonna do anything. They're gonna tell you to
leave. They're gonna say, oh, you gotta um. We don't do
anything about that. That would be fascinating. I don't know. You could.
If you have the money and it's worth it to you to keep it
all under wraps, you pay it off. If you don't have the money,
then you roll. You roll. The dice. Part of me is
thinks that this happens to one person, then they get the money. It
happens, and pretty soon it happens to everybody at the school. And then
after while everyone at the schools like, yeah, I saw mine, you
saw mine? Everyone saw that. Okay, I can take right. Hey,
look I cut your picture out of the yearbook and I put it on
a porn actress. U hahaha. Everybody's seen it. Every knows. I
went to a like a the thing called vert Virtus. This is a training
for Catechism teachers on Sat yesterday and one of this I gotta sit through this
every ten years or something like that because of the chomos um. They were
saying that the number one users of pornos were kids between twelve and fifteen or
twelve and eighteen. That's where the that's the number one user customer of or
pornography or user or viewer of pornography on phones on the internet is kids between
twelve and eighteen. So I'm saying, these kids have already seen these images,
and they've seen their friends face, they seen the images. It's almost
like you say, all right, go ahead, show it everywhere. I'm
not paying you because you're you're gonna show it anyway. And then everybody's sharing
the risk because everybody's gonna have to suffer from this. So maybe there's an
argument to just say go ahead, I don't care. The herd immunity argument,
Yeah, the herd immunity. Yeah, yeah, all right. Joe'scolante
live from Hollywood. Are you back after this? Okay? Joe Wescalante live
from Hollywood by Hollywood? You mean Burbank case, Sam, You've got Mike
number three still on? Does that mean? Yeah? That's on my end?
Have to unstick the button, all right, unstick that button. We
are iHeartMedia. We are here every Sunday from five to seven with the business
end of show business, the business affairs of Hollywood. Now, Sam,
are you familiar with the band Ramstein? Yeah? Yeah do host host host
um so Ramstein. They're from East Berlin. I think East Germany. They
were rocking before the wall came down. I believe, outstanding band of crazy
band. Yeah, and they just phillip stadiums all over the world. They're
doing four nights at the Olympic the Munich like Olympic Stadium where I think we're
like where it's gotta be where? Yeah, where Hitler? And I had
to watch Jesse Owens wipe the floor with his uber team. Ah. Well,
he's in a little trouble this singer of of Raemstein. Was he unable
to remove the duct tape this time? Something like that? It's pictured this
this, This is the accusation. This man sings for a rock band that
sells out stadiums four nights in a row, more popular than Hitler, probably
because how many how many could Hitler do four in a row? Maybe not
maybe two? Read the most He wouldn't sell out LA, that's for sure.
No, no, no no. Evidently he picks out attractive women and
tries to have sex with them in a rock band. The singer of a
rock band. Have you ever heard such a thing? I thought that was
like part of the appeal, like I want to be a rock star so
that I can find beautiful women and do that. Yeah, And they call
it it's a special section that the girls are invited into called Row zero.
You have your first row and you have Row zero, and there's like a
casting lady that kind of goes out and finds the women and they sit in
Row zero, and then they come to exclusive after parties, and evidently the
singers express his interest in having sex with them. It comes to the surprise
to all these women who thought they were going backstage to discuss Chairman High German
Grammar and the great stand up comedy that comes out of the Wagner Festival.
Um. So, on the one hand, you're like, just want a
pervert this guy. But you're like, on the other hand, you're like,
what do you want? This is what I was wondering what was going
to happen when the me Too got into rock and roll? Because this is
rock and roll. It's not the part of rock and roll I'm in.
I don't like it. This is like the punk rock is PC. There's
very little misogyny. There's no misogyny tolerated. There's a lot of misogyny in
the early UM records, you know, from bands like um, maybe the
Rotters I'm thinking of where they had this song called them about Steve Stevie Nicks
and all these things they want to do to her. Some early Vandals music
that I had to pull off of our releases that were misogynistic or a misogynistum
from our old singer that would write misogynist songs, and I pulled them and
uh and but they're out there. You know. It's like it's not a
lot you can do about it because of the Internet and everything. But UM,
in general, this is you know, it's like the Van Halen world,
like Babes and backstage, I guess what, we got two flavors of
ice cream where you have this and we have bubble gum and we're a fresh
out of bubblegum, and you know what this is? UM. So that's
UM. So this has come to rock and roll, and I think rock
and roll is kind of beyond this. Now, you know, who are
the popular rock bands, Well, let me tell you the Food Fighters.
I just did a play our hang out with them for two shows in a
row. These are married people with kids. There's no backstage betties. Uh
that so, but the kind of goes back to the Germans. There a
little behind, and if you're from East Germany, you're really behind. So
this guy's you know, just getting into hey, uh, why don't you
When I play, I will pick out foxy ladies and you would they would
be you know, I would meet with them backstage and then I will have
meet with them and that's the that's the Uh. They're they're just now,
you know, kind of they're still in it. They're still doing this.
So this guy is being um pounded now because the women are saying, uh,
you know, I went, I woke up sore. I think I
was drugged. Nothing is There's been no umuh criminal filings. It's just women
are making statements and saying, you know, I had an account with the
band prior to the show in Vilnius, Lithuania. This is just last May,
which led me to believe that my drink may have been spiked. Doing
the pre party allege that I was brought into a room under the stage.
I was joined by mister Lindeman to his name Till Lindeman, no relation to
Ricky Lindemann from my bodyguard. And when I said I would not have sex
with him, he became angry. But then she later posted on May thirtieth,
he did not touch her. He accepted. I didn't want to have
these six with him, and he never I never claim he ripped me.
Um, but this is um. It looks like he's just it just kind
of just recruiting girls to possibly have sex with because that's what rock and roll
singers used to do and they're still doing it in East Germany. But he
didn't do anything. He accepted, He accepted when she said no, yes,
I'm not seeing the problem and otherwise other other than like possibly be having
the drink spiked. Yeah, like that's that's crossing over into kind of Bill
Cosby ish kind of stuff. Yeah, but the and that's as creepy as
it gets. But at the same time, yeah, she's like, if
he didn't touch you, first of all, did he spike your drink?
First of all, you'll be spiking people's drinks anymore. Like you know,
Bill Cosby, it's hard to believe it. Like it didn't the If you're
the singer of a guy that sells out four stadiums and you're and you're spiking
drinks um to have your way with women, something's terribly wrong. Um,
you don't have to do that. And it's like, oh, let me,
he's not a bad looking guy. Let me spike your drinks so I
will have a better chance at having relations with you. Will you have relations
with me? No? I'm okay, I'm angry. I'm angry, but
I am not going to rape you. But I did spike your drink.
I mean, like, what do you want? What do you? Rock
and roll tours are hard enough to be dragging around uh zombified drugged women.
But you know, anything could happen. Bill Cosby did it. Um,
if there's a credible report, we must believe it. Right. Most believes
that women. Um, but listen, when we believes in women, she
said she does not have the sex. But this is a big problem for
z singer of z Ramstein Um and du hast heard it here first. I
failed to see the problem here. He recruited them to have sex. They
didn't want to have sex. He said, okay, that's not recruiting them.
Then they didn't do anything I thinks is of ro Zero. I think
the scandal is they have a Rozero. I would like to see which other
bands from the you know, like that era had the same kind of thing.
I know that there are bands like the Foo Fighters that are very much
like you know, family people. They're very family people and their concerts are
very family friendly. And you know, you know, this is an old
thing. Yeah, this is from a bygone era. Yeah, but that
but I'm telling you that it hasn't gone out of style in Germany. And
like many things like Ze haircuts and Ze tiny shorts. So um uh now,
um that's fascinating. I'm still I'm still reeling from that. He you
usually you hear it. Oh he spiked my drink and then he took advantage
of me. He spiked my drink, and then when I said no,
he was like, okay, great. I failed to see the problem there.
He was very respectful if he was the one that spiked or drink,
he respected her feelings. Afterwards, I doubt he was the one that spiked
or drink. If her drink was spiked. I don't think anyone's I mean,
I'm just gonna I believe that it was. I just don't. But
that's the outcome you want to have if your drink is spiked. A guy
saying no, I will not take advantage of you. No, I will
not exploit you. But the zingup became angry. Ah, he accepted it.
I know what top was this sex with him? Anyway? All right,
let's move on to speaking of music. Do you know music? You
know it's blowing up. I've heard I'm reading this in this story um on
the internets. Mexican music, really Mexican music blowing up and h the Mexican
in concerts. I've been I've been contacted by two people in Mexico to be
like, like help facilitate some music stuff going on in Mexico. And the
shows are like like fifty five thousand seat stadiums, black pink selling them out,
multa nights, multi nights, and just just international music. But the
Mexican music, the regional Mexican actually is like the hottest thing right now.
And the of course the reggaetneum the so you know, watch out if you're
cool, you know bands like Bad Bunny and Paso Pluma and uh Jay Balvin.
This is the this is what your kids are. It was K pop.
Now it's Mexican, Mexican whatever. All right, you heard it here,
dustood it here? Fussed? Uh let us takes a break and checks
it traffic and return with more of the same scenes. All right, joe
'scalante right here every Sunday from five to seven with the business end of show
Business KiB fifteen yr AM dial. You're cool if you're listening to AM radio
right now. They're my tesla doesn't have AM radio and they're trying to take
AM radio out of a lot of cars. As you know, Sam,
but you have to write your congressman and tell them we need AM radios in
the cars. AM radio is free and can be a place where you go
to in emergencies when you get you know, you wind up your your radio
that you bought on on TV late at night. That says this radio is
gonna work. By just winding up in an emergency, you're gonna be able
to communicate with people like Sam and Joe with our iHeart radio access cards to
come and broadcast. In this case of an emergency. Sam and I both
have these cards. What are they saying? One of my favorite things I
have about doing radio. iHeart media or agency response team. I'm a critical
operations employee. Sam, I believe you are too. Yes, I am.
I have that in my wallet. Yeah, so let me fut,
let me through, officer. Yeah, I must get to the airwaves.
I'm allowed to speed. This card says, so I'm I'm due on the
airwaves. The aliens are coming. Have you Have you seen the alien guy
that's running around the whistleblowers saying that the government has alien technology and they've been
hiding it. I agree with them, Okay, Yeah, I don't know.
You know, I don't know. I mean the proof is out there.
Yeah, we are not alone. I've seen it, so I don't
know. Oh, here's some news for you, some housekeeping. Joeiscalante.
We'll be appearing July twenty first, twenty second, and twenty third at the
Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, doing tours, two tours a day,
twelve o'clock and two thirty. It was very successful last time, so I'm
coming back. And if you've thought about going to the Punk Rock Museum July
twentieth to the twenty third. That's when I'll be there, and so far,
just a lot of satisfied customers. I go through the whole exhibit.
I tell you, you know, I got into punk rock about nineteen seventy
eight, and punk rock started in nineteen seventy seven. Basically, you can
there's a lot of pre punk rock stuff like New York Dolls. But anyway,
and I'm still in it. I'm still playing, you know, big
festivals with all the punk bands. So it's one of those things where the
older people are more valued. That's why I like it. You can get
Pete Wentz out there from Fallout Boy, and he's a pretty pretty guy and
he's super cool, but what does he know about the old days? He's
going to pay to be on my tour, is what's going to happen.
Anyway. They have a lot of tours like that. You have younger people,
older people, but in this in this case most of the older guys,
we're doing pretty good. It seems like one of the best, the
best selling or like Greg Hudson from The Circle, Jerks and Bad Religion and
H. CJ. Ramon, So it's I got, you know, still
living Ramon and he's like sold out tours and mine are due. Mine pretty
damn good. So I'm definitely coming out for that one. I'm thinking that
July one would be a good opportunity for me. I would love to see
you there. Uh you know what Adidas would love to see I know the
story, Please go ahead. Yeah, they're stuck with one point three billion
dollars worth of unsold Yeasy shoes after Kanye, you know, started getting all
anti Semitici and they don't know what to do. Um, So aren't they
just going to start selling them just without the Yeasy brand? Uh? Yeah,
I mean it seems like you could just take the brand off and sell
them to children in Nigeria for you know, two dollars a pair. Yeah.
I mean, if you take that name off of it, you got
you got some ugly ass Adidas. I mean, and there's some really nice
Adidas out there. Those are yeah, ugly ass shoes. Yeah. I
wear almost exclusively Adidas, and I wouldn't wear these things. I've just heard
the greatest story about Kanye last week. I can't really tell. Oh,
I can't wait until I turn off Mike. I'm asking what the story is.
Yeah, Oh yeah, I had there's some Hollywood news. I had
lunch at the Bungalows and Samva Sente. This is a private restaurant, and
it's interesting because if someone I'm not a member, but I was invited and
had lunch some heavy hitters, of course. And when you get there and
you check in, they take your phone and they don't take it like you're
at a tool concert or something and they're gonna put it in a bag or
something like that. They just put a little sticker on it on the front
lens in the back lens. They have two sizes of stickers, one big
one for your front lens and a small one for your back lens. And
they go, I'm just gonna put that on there for you so you don't
take pictures. Let me take you to your seat. And I was like,
yeah, I'm all about it. Let's not. I assume she was
doing that to protect me from people taking pictures of me. And then you
know, yeah, I played along and had stickers put on my phone,
So it's like, why not, It's only fair. But yeah, amazing
food, amazing. I've only had my phone taken from me for privacy reasons
one time, and that was at the Situation Room at the White House.
Oh really Yeah, yeah, they have a little locker that you can that
Like, they take your phone, they put it in the lockers. So
I went to a private restaurant in Hollywood, but you went to the Situation
Room or the White House. Yeah all right. Well do you know anything
about not trying to over one up the host? Oh dude, I'd rather
do it, I know. Do you know about this rule? I thought
your story was way better than mine. Miners, like, they just put
it in a lock box. That's about it. You got to be like
hobnobbing with the ploy of Hollywood. It. Um, So if anyone invites
you to go to the bungalows, you gotta go. Uh. Let's see.
Okay, So any writer strike stuff we want to end with. Um
uh. There was a guy, a producer, UM's accused of threatening striking
writers with his vehicle. So there they already on strike. Yeah they're striking.
Yeah, but he's got a vehicle and he's going to run over him.
Oh I thought you said he was going to strike them with his vehicle.
Now. The alleged incident occurred Thursday afternoon in Georgia, where BMF,
as in Black Mafia Family, was in production on the third season of the
series, based on the lives of two brothers who founded an influential crime organization
in nineteen eighties. Detroit writer Brian Egiston, who documented the alleged incident on
Twitter, claims BMF's Ian Wolf sped toward him and other writers in his suv
and stopped short in what he dubbed as an intimidation tactic. As I marched
with you with my brothers at the WGA and peaceful protests, similar to the
giants who have walked the very streets where you almost committed manslaughter. You chose
to, in your own words, try to scare you, Egiston wrote as
part of a thread of the alleged incident, describing himself as a hero.
Anyways, all right, so that's what's going on. Be careful if you
go on strike because you could get run over. Right, That's not an
outcome I'd like to see. No, But for most of the part,
these these strikes, they've been pretty much of a party. Wheezer went down
and played a couple other people have gone and entertained the writers. But it
looks at the directors made a deal. So the writers might have to wrap
up their deal in the next um forty five days, I would say the
most and the But the actors, I think they're a wild card. They
are voting to strike. I don't know what the final tally was, but
they're going to go on strike. And there here's the difference between the actors
and the and the other ones. The actors the Screen Actors Guild. I
know we gotta go, but I'll just say this. The Screen Actors Guild
is filled with people who don't act and don't work at all, and but
the idea of striking and like the you know, the twentieth century socialist art
that can go along with your with that, it seems it's romantic to them.
So they they might strike over anything. So we'll see what happens.
If you might. Um, are you in the Screen Actors Guild, this
is your chance, That's what I'm saying. Okay, Joe's gonna say live
from Hollywood, Uh, see you next time. And now I'll leave you
with just a taste of the greatest song You've ever written.