Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank across the street from a
Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer. This is Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood with two
hours of the business end of show Business every Sunday here on k E I
B eleven fifty on your AM dial. Today. We've got a lot of
stuff going on tonight. We have the Johnny Ramon tribute event that's going on
right now at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery where they're showing pulp fiction and John Travolta
is there. You could get down there. I don't know if you can
get tickets sold out, but that's going on right now and this weekend.
I just got back from Virginia Beach to the Point blank Point Break Festival where
Sublime headlined a you know, reggae Vibes festival. Huge. That's the band
I manage, So I'm there, all right. I have very sad news
to start out with today, but I want to get it out of the
way. A very dear friend of mine named Albert Ruddy died. He was
my showbiz Hollywood writing producing mentor. I first met al He's very famous.
You're gonna I'm gonna blow your mind right now. He's ninety five. He
died at age of ninety four this past week, and I'm gonna blow your
mind with this guy. I met him when I was working at CBS Television
on a show called Walker Texas Ranger. He was the creator. He's the
guy that said, you know what, we can turn Chuck Norris action film
star into a TV star because I think everybody in America would like this guy
to come into their home and kick some bad guy asses. And he was
right, and it was a huge success over two hundred episodes. And at
some point in the in that show, I think I've told this story before,
Chuck Norris gave me a copy of a song written by one of his
black belts, he said, and it was called the Eyes of a Ranger,
and he said, this is pretty good song, don't you think,
Joe? And he knew I was in the music business too, so he
said, what do you tell me what you think? And I said,
here's what I think. I think we should make this the new theme of
Walker Texas Ranger. It's only been on the show for just one season at
that point, and I think you should sing it and he goes, Oh,
no, Joe, I can't sing. I go know, it's going
to be like the Beverly Hillbillies theme, like more recitation. You're just gonna
have to sing this chorus. We'll get a vocal coach in the studio.
I'll walk you through it. It'll be great. I was. You know,
there's a lot of people in the studio. I got credit for producing
the track, and that's my Chuck Norris Ster. I guess. But let
me get back to already already made that happen. It made a lot,
a lot of things happen. If you can meet any one guy in show
business and have them tell you a great show business story, you could do
probably no better than to try to meet the guy that sold the show Hogan's
Heroes to the CBS television network in nineteen sixty three. If you don't know
anything about Hogan's Heroes, Hogan's Heroes is a comedy about a German prison camp
during the Nazi You know, the Nazis are running Germany. They got a
prison camp and this is a comedy about some Americans, Brits, French people.
They're all in the prison camp and they're not really trying to escape.
They're just trying to help the war effort, and they're trying to foil the
Nazis. This is a half hour sitcom. Okay, we've all seen it.
We know it went eight hours or eight years. We know it was
a giant success. But can you imagine being the guy walking in to a
room. I mean you can say, you have to say it as a
room full of Jews, and you pitch Hogan's heroes. Who is that guy?
Well, that guy was already and uh so, you know, genius
of all of all time in television. Uh he told me that story many
times. How he sold it. Maybe I'll tell it later or whatever,
but not today. I'll tell it some other time. I don't feel like
telling it right now, but it'll come up, the topic will come up,
and I'll tell that story more detail. But he did sell it,
and it went eight years. And then after that he's like, I want
to make movies. So he ends up hustling and getting the job as the
producer of The Godfather and from from Paramount, from the head of Paramount,
and he ends up winning the af for Best Picture on what many people consider
the greatest film ever made. So you go from Hogan's heroes to the Godfather,
and after that he makes in that the Godfather's nineteen seventy two, the
nineteen seventy four he makes The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds, one of the
greatest, definitely the greatest football movie ever made, one of the greatest prison
movies ever made. Cannonball Run nineteen eighty one, another Burt Reynolds thing.
Just a classic million Dollar Baby in two thousand and four wins him another Oscar
for Best Picture, So unbelievable career. Just did a just a couple of
years ago, him and Clint Eastwood directed a movie of his as a movie
he actually asked me to rewrite and CRII macho is the name of that one.
And I was just about to rewrite that one, as development executives said,
now, Joe, don't do that. Everybody's taken a stab at that,
and you should work on the other things he wants you to work on.
Anyway, So over the years I ended up writing stuff for him,
And I wrote a gangster movie about some black gangsters and during prohibition smuggling rum
runners during the Prohibition, and then I wrote a Western comedy with him,
and I wrote some movies with already Ringo. It was a comedy, you
know, frontier Western comedy. I wrote another one with him. We called
it the untitled Kansas Missouri Project. It was about a group of prostitutes on
a quest for a treasure in the Old West. It was fun. And
then but the thing that I had the most fun writing for him was well,
actually, when I wrote the Gangster thing for him, I slipped in
a copy of my version of a new reboot of Hogan's Heroes, and I
had heard less Moonvest move actually is his development guy came in with an email
from less Moonvest said, les has this email for He'd print out all his
emails because's getting kind of old. He does not not really you know,
computer guy. So his assistant would print out these emails and say this is
from less Moonvest. He wants to know where the Hogan's Heroes reboot is and
he goes, oh, okay, I better get on that, and so
he asked me to write something. I write it. I handed in,
but I also hand in a reboot of Hogan's Heroes. And what I tried
to do was make it like as ballsy as when he sold this Nazi comedy
in nineteen sixty three. This is just eighteen years after World War Two's over.
That's when he handed this in. That's like eighteen years ago from now
is like, you know, twenty two thousand and eight or two thousand and
six, So that's a picture two thousand and six, that's when World War
two ended. Then he's writing this comedy pitching it to CBS. So I
try to do something as ballsy. I didn't want to go back to Germany,
so I set this thing in Guantanamo Bay. And it's four Muslims that
have been caught up in the in the War on Terror. They've been kidnapped,
sold to the Americans. Oh yeah, these we can have these guys,
put them in your prison. And they're four guys and they don't belong
there, and but they really don't want to escape because if they get out,
they'll be killed because they really didn't fight for the cause of you know,
true Islam. So it's like, you know, it's classic sitcom.
These four guys. One of them's a BRONI. You know, they get
into just enough mischief to get in a lot of trouble. But then they're
back where they started every episode because they get you know, caught, and
they're thrown back into and they have a tunnel and they go into town in
Guantanamo Bay and one of them has a job at Pizza Hut or something.
Anyway, Ali said was the funniest thing he'd read years. He called me
as he called me, like the funniest writer in Hollywood during that time.
We went around and we tried to sell it. We went in a lot
of meetings. It was a lot of fun just to go to meetings with
Already and sell The new version of of Hogan's Heroes was called Hussein's Heroes,
and eventually most of the showrunners in towns. The way the way it works
is I'm gonna explain right after this break, this is kind of illustrative of
television business of why this show did not sell. Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood.
Joe scolantate Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank And I
want to continue with the salute to al Ready. So with Already, you
know, he produced, he created Hogan's Heroes. In nineteen sixty three,
he creates, He becomes the producer of the Godfather, gets the best Picture
Oscar for that Walker Texas Ranger. That's where I meet him at CBS and
I'm writing I hand in something to him, but I sneak in the Hogan's
Heroes version that I want to do, which is who Hussein's Heroes. And
this is basically the prison is not in Nazi Germany anymore. It's in Guantanamo
Bay. You got four lovable characters that really don't want to leave. And
but the Schultz of this show, the Colonel Schultz, he is ahead of
the prison and he has to clear out the prison because the President just said,
you got to get this, we got to get rid of this prison.
I made a campaign promise I'm going to close down this prison, so
you got to close down that prison. Now, he doesn't want to close
down the prison because these people are all dangerous, but he has to close
down the prison because the President has told him he has to close it down.
And his wife, who was like, you know, super hot sitcom
wife, she wants off that island. So he's got to close it down.
So he but it's too hard because these guys are killers. So he
picks the four guys that don't belong there. The Broni and the gay one
and these and these other two, and he picks them because I'm gonna throw
you out, but he's gonna let him out, all right, good behavior.
So they get in just enough mischief every episode to not get released,
and they stay where they're at, and then they stay safe because they are
If they're sent back to their country, they will be killed because they're,
you know, the infidels. Now, so we go around trying to pitch
that and here's the problem we ran into. Although he thought it was brilliant,
although we ended up in the CBS productions and they thought it was brilliant.
So but they can't make me the showrunner because I had not been a
showrunner before, so they have to assign it to one of their showinners.
They have these overall deals that we've talked about on this show before. You
give some guy four million a year and then all this stuff he writes is
for you. Now, it's kind of hard to get people to be a
showrunner for someone else's idea because they have their own ideas and if you tell
them, hey, you're going to show run this idea, we like it,
and he's like that show runner's like, well, I'd rather show run
my own ideas, because why would I want to share created by credit with
this smuck over here, Joe Scillante. So that's one of the problems.
The other problem was every time we would get close to selling the show,
there'd be a terrorist attack somewhere, and then we'd have to back off because
the terrorist attack was in the news and we are we are having a terrorist
comedy. So that's where it stayed. And then every once in a while
someone would come in and say, ah, I want to remake Hogan's Heroes,
and they would it'd be like a big famous person and they would,
you know, try, but nothing would happen. Then he dig out my
script again and we would try. It didn't happen. But I'll tell you
what, I just loved working with already. What a legend, what a
sweetheart guy. And man, I mean, I just always wanted to meet
the guy that sold the Hogan's Heroes. And then I became his friend,
and you know, he show me his Oscar the Godfather won he had at
his house and we were writing there, and he's more proud of his tennis
court, actually super cool tennis court up in Beverly Hills. It's a quint
essential Beverly Hills guy. He went to USC. He was like a shoe
salesman. And then someone in his apartment building was writing scripts all the time,
and he asked him, what are you doing as I'm writing scripts?
And he found out what he was getting paid, and he said, let
me take a crack at that. And then they worked on some ideas,
and then he and that guy went and pitched the Hoogan Heroes. Anyway,
I could go on all day. What an honor it was to work with
him and know him and call him my friend. Already dead at ninety four,
Super sad. Okay, let's shift gears here. That's what we do.
Right when we stopped talking about stuff like that, Let's go to the
movies of this week. What happened this week in the theaters? What did
we have? Well? I went to see a movie that I'm kind of
mad that I didn't see earlier. That movie is called The Fall Guy.
The Fall Guy is a you know what it is. It's based on a
TV show, a Lee Major's TV show. After The Million six Million Dollar
Man, Lee Major's next next hit show was The Fall Guy. We probably
plays a stunt guy with a heart, you know. So this is Ryan
Gosling and Emily Blunt directed by a guy who is named David Leech, but
we can just call him the the John Wick director. That guy, he's
like a stunt director. Everyone knows that John Wick started from a stunt director.
And Keanu Reeve is not going to make this action movie series totally successful,
so he does this one. It's hilarious. Written by guy named Drew
Pierce who wrote Ironman three and Mission Impossible, Rogue Nation. But I don't
know where this guy got his comedy chops, because this movie was hilarious.
Ryan Gosling is hilarious anyway. He's the biggest talent out there right now.
I think he's number one. I think, after Ken and after this,
I think he moves ahead of Matt Damon. He moves ahead of Leonardo DiCaprio,
he moves ahead of Brad Pitt. Ryan Gosling is the guy. He
moves ahead. Yeah, I said it. He moves ahead of Tom Cruise.
I would say, of all those people, Ryan Gosling is the guy
I'd go see any movie. Any movie he makes, I'm gonna go see
it. It used to be that. I used to feel that way about
you know a lot of different actors, Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Robert de Niro. Let's just talk about that guy. Oh my lord,
that guy just went off the rails. Okay, let's talk about it.
We had this legal case this past week, and since this is a legal
show, I'm a lawyer, I'll give you my opinion. It looks to
me like a bunch of enemies, political enemies of Donald Trump, decided to
break every rule known to the Constitution in a trial and they didn't care,
and they knew they were doing it, and they knew it would get reversed
in appeal, but they said, let's just do it. Let's just do
everything. I'm the judge, you're the prosecutor. We will railroad this guy
and we will break all the rules. And we know it's going to get
reversed, but we don't care. Why don't we care because that will come
after the election. All we need to do is get a conviction. Now,
it's genius in an evil kind of way. But wow, I mean
I know people like that. I know people that would say, like you
could say, well, that's wrong because they could do that to you later,
or that's wrong. No matter what he did, that's wrong because justice
needs to be you know, blind and equal. I don't care. I
mean, I have friends would just say I don't care. I don't care.
I don't care. I hate Donald Trump, I don't care. So
me, I don't hate Donald Trump. I used to like dislike him when
he was on TV, but I don't hate him. I don't hate Joe
Biden. I don't hate any of these people, but I do. I'm
shocked at what they did because they what they did was wrong, just objectively
wrong, changing the rules and depriving of someone of their rights, even though
you know it's going to get overturned, just so you can be able to
try to derail an election instead of just going and seeing who votes for who.
So it probably backfire on him. I don't know. But that's the
end of that. We won't talk about that anymore. Back to Ryan Gosling
in the movies. In the movies, Okay, so The Fall Guy so
great, such a great movie. It's just just like you know, there's
there's a it's like a Mission impossible movie with all the action. You get
all that action, but it's also hilarious. It's funny. So highly recommended
The Fall Guy. People said it was a flop, and maybe it was
a flop. Didn't We'll check the box office records in the next segment.
But you know, they told us it was a fop, but they didn't
tell us how good it was. So I it's my biggest recommendation of the
week. I have some other streaming recommendations coming up after the break and you
get to those. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood
is by Hollywood? You mean bur Bank. We're still going through the business
end of show business here on a Sunday night, Hollywood. Okay, Burbank.
What's going on in Hollywood? Really in Holly with tonight is the Johnny
Roman tribute event that was gone for a while. It's back. I go
every year. I'll be over there right after this hob knobbing. Okay,
So we're going to go back to the movies. Okay, what did I
see? I saw The Fall Guy, and then in the streaming world,
I saw a movie called The Two Escobars. It might have been a thirty
for thirty thirty by thirty or whatever, thirty for thirty what do you call
those things? Sports documentary? But I do recommend it. The Two Escobars
is about Pablo Escobar and Escobar on Dada's Escobar is the guy who scored a
goal in his own goal during the World Cup match, or it wasn't a
World Cup match. I guess it was a World Cup. It was at
the It was right here in Los Angeles. They have World Cups here.
I don't know, you can tell how good I was paying attention. I
really liked it, though I didn't I know. There was Narco Soccer that
different Narco bosses owned different soccer teams and they poured a bunch of money into
them, their drug money to get better players and keep the better players.
And it did work, and they put Colombian soccer on the map. So
that's on Netflix or something off the frond of the Two esca Bars on the
Criterion channel. This week, I watched a tasty little gem called Point Blank
with Lee Marvin. Lee Marvin. This is a nineteen sixty seven movie directed
by John Borman. John Borman that attracted me to watch this. You know,
there's a lot of stuff on Criterion you could never watch it all.
But I saw this and I'm like, Okay, Lee Marvin Andrew Dickinson,
directed by John Borman. That's the director of Deliverance. One of the greatest
films ever made. Deliverance was nineteen seventy two. I mean, what a
year for movies, nineteen seventy to come on The Godfather Deliverance. The funny
thing is is I never saw The Godfather until way later, but Deliverance.
I read the book. I found it in the thrifties and the Seal Beach
shopping center Rossmore. I read it. It said soon to be a major
motion picture. So my stepmother used to always be like, every time we
see a movie, she goes, oh, it wasn't as good as the
book. And I'm like, I see another movie, Oh, I wasn't
good as the book. Who's reading all these books? And how do you
know that they're going to make movies of these books? It wasn't this book.
That's about how much I liked her. It was the book. So
I had a couple of stepmothers this one and like, but but I go,
you know what, I'm gonna read a movie before. I'm gonna read
a book before a movie. So I go to thrifty and here's a book
says, mind you, I'm ten, okay, maybe nine, what was
it nineteen seventy two, I'm nine, Okay, that might be eight because
this is before the movie came out. Okay, so I'm eight. So
eight year old goes into thrifty and sees a book. It says it sooned
to be a major motion picture. Oh I got you got me there.
Books back then were only like a real good one, a nice one like
that would be like two dollars and twenty five cents. I could scare that
up just pop bottles. So I get it. I read it. Whoa
gonna just you know some of it? Maybe I didn't understand pretty mouth stuff.
Why would he still tell me as a pretty mouth eight year old?
You don't know that? So anyway, that's John Borman. And then I
got to say, oh, it's not as good as the book, but
it was as good as the book. It was. He was a liar.
Those movies were all probably as good as the books. She just wanted
to So she was anyway, Lee Marvin, some kind of gangster roaming around
Los Angeles, and they're gonna and San Francisco actually, and he and some
guy are gonna rob these people, these gangsters, and they're hiding money.
They're gonna be able to big money transfer on Alcatraz. I didn't know in
nineteen sixty seven Alcatraz was still had already closed, so they were. They
had tours there in nineteen sixty seven, so that's kind of cool. There's
a lot of exteriors for Los Angeles and San Francisco in the movie point blank
that are interesting. And so it gets double crossed, and so he spends
a whole movie trying to find the guy at double cross him. Basically that's
the plot. But how do they go about it. They go about it
by making a French new wave film to tell the story. I mean,
that's all this is. This is a French new wave film with English dialogue,
so you know you can tell. John Borman saw thench new wave movies
and he said, I want to be like these guys. These guys are
getting a lot of attention. So he made one. Little did he know,
I don't know a lot of people don't know. Pardon me, I
don't have a cough button here. A lot of people don't know that the
French new wave movement was basically a the French new wave makers influenced by American
filmmakers, and they took it over there and they ran with it. If
you want to see what what what A lot of people call the one of
the influences of the French new wave filmmakers of the sixties was a move movie
called The Little Fugitive. If you if you watch one movie I talk about
this week, watch The Little Fugitive. It's an old movie from the sixties.
Oh, it's just it's precious, this movie anyway, point blank,
you could you could get by with not seeing it. But if you have
the Criterion channel in your and your going by here and you like French new
wave movies and you want to see like them, attempt one and it was
not a fail. It was good. It was as good as you know
most any French new wave movie I would watch, point blank, all right,
any other crap that I watched. You know, when I see people
and they talk about my right radio show, the most often, the biggest,
the most often they say this, Oh you told me about something,
and I watched it and I liked it. So let's try to make recommendations
let's shift over to the movie theater business. The movie theater business, there's
two. It's kind of a rivalry going on there right now. And what
people think is going to save the music the movie business, And one of
them is the people say shaking seats is going to save the movie business.
Now, last week I saw Furiosa and I sat right next to a guy
in one of the shaking seats at the cinema four D X chairs. They're
gyroscopic, they move around. They went a gunfight happens. You hear every
bullet, you feel every bullet. There's water that squirts and smoke and stuff
like that. If you sit right next to one. In some of the
theaters, you can sit one next to one and you get a little bit
of it spilling over. And then I realized I should have sat in one
for Mad Max. That would have been the smart move, the four DX
gyroscopic action chair for So this is so if you haven't seen Feir Yosa,
which you probably haven't see it in one of these shaking chairs at the cinemak
or wherever they have in four DX cinema cosm, I can tell you that
right now. So some people say that's what's going to bring younger people in.
They got to make it something you can't get at home. And other
people are saying, you know what, it's just you've got to make better
movies, and you got to make less of these big giant blockbusters you're trying
to. Everything's got to be a blockbuster. Since Jaws. It's the guy
Bob left sets and his letter said, ever since Jaws and Star Wars,
everyone's like, look how much money could be made with a blockbuster. Let's
make only blockbusters and failed MP set blockbusters. But the argument is, you
don't have enough money to do that because not enough people are going to the
movie. So why don't you take all that money and just makes a bunch
of good movies, Like, you don't have to make just blockbusters. Why
don't you take less blockbusters. You're gonna spend two hundred million on a blockbuster.
Why don't you make six thirty million dollar movies for one hundred and eighty
million and take twenty million and change and put it in your pocket? Okay,
Like, let's see a great movie I liked last year, the Zone
of Interest. I would like five Zone of interest. Please. I don't
need anymore Marvel movies. Will that put people in the seats? I think
it will. You know, also, you got to have them put them
in theaters and don't put them in the streamers right away. I guess you
know. But is it the shaking seats? Is it just movies? I
don't know. You can make a comment on my Facebook page if you want.
All right, let's take a break and we'll come back with them.
Or Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Askante, here's my lawyer. You
don't want money. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean
burd Banks, we are back. Yeah. We have commercials, we have
traffic, We have all that stuff. Some people listen to this as a
podcast and they're like, where do you keep going, Joe, Well,
we have commercials, we have a traffic guy, we have a news people
that give updates, surreal AM radio. It's a real deal. So hey,
remember that movie, Dude, Where's My Jet? I would take a
documentary series, maybe even it was where the guy Pepsi was? It was
he said, if you buy enough pepsis and you get these points, they
will give you a jet, a military grade jet. Some guy did the
math and found out you could buy these points too, and it found out
that it would cost seven hundred thousand dollars in points to buy this jet,
but the jet was worth millions. So he got some investors and he bought
the points and PEPSI said go away, and they wouldn't give it to him.
Went to trial. It went to trial. The court said, PEPSI
wins this. This was sicilly, you're not you're not. You're not getting
a jet. And sometimes corporations are allowed to do stuff like that, just
kind of make outrageous claims called puffing. Say this is the fastest car in
the world. I drove it. It wasn't very fast. I'm suing him.
No, it's just called puffing. You gotta live with that. It's
like, just don't be a jerk anyway. Why am I bringing this up?
Because liquid death that water? Weird, bro, they're giving away a
jet. They're just giving it away, so they're really gonna actually give away
a jet, and that's how they get people like me to talk about their
dumb water. But there's nothing wrong with the water. I'm just bitter that
I didn't invest in it. Okay, that's fine. You can understand that,
right. Okay, Hey, there's something I haven't told you. June
twenty third at the Los Alamitos Museum. There's gonna be a grand reopening in
Los Alamitos. That's in Orange County, not too far from Hollywood, where
this film is supposedly or this radio show is supposedly broadcast. It's in Orange
County, in between like Seal Beach and Long Beach around there, but in
the Orange County sign they got a little museum. It's a cute little museum,
and they're gonna do an installation process and they're gonna honor me and put
me in their Hall of Fame on June twenty third at two pm, and
I think we're gonna you know, we're gonna have like a taco guy and
some drinks and we're going to a party afterwards at a bar next door called
the Boondocks, which is probably the worst bar in America, but we're gonna
do it anyway because you can walk there. So if you look at my
Facebook page of my Instagram, you'll see more info on that, and it
might be fun if you're in the area, come and say hi. So
they just called me out of the Blue and said, hey, we'd like
to honor you at the and put you in our Hall of Fame at the
Los Almeidas Museum grand opening. This is like a cold call. I just
I have to answer any call now because I'm managing Sublime and it could be
anybody, So I answer it. This lady says you're gonna honor me.
They're going to honor we'd like to honor you. I'm like, okay.
First I thought it was a prank, and I realized slowly, I realized
this it might be real. She goes, yeah, we're honoring you for
your achievements. That's really all she said, for your achievements. So yeah,
come on by. Madonna's getting sued again. You know, she got
sued for being late on her concerts. Class action suits. A couple fans
get together and they say, I've been harmed. How are you harmed?
Well, I was harmed because it says here the thing's going to start at
eight and started at twelve thirty. Got a sitter, got actual damages here.
Then you get other people. You added class action suit, and you
know who makes money on a class action suit, the lawyers, because the
other side has to pay their legal fees, so they just start cranking out
the fees. You got ten lawyers working at thirty five hundred dollars apiece an
hour, thirty five hundred an hour apiece. I now have heard of a
guy making over five thousand an hour. So you could get some high priced
lawyers cranking up some bills and then if you win, those guys get all
the money. And then they pass out coupons to all the people were harmed,
because were they really harmed that much? No? Not really. That's
why you know. I don't really fill out those things when people send me
stuff that says you're part of a class section suit, except for once I
did, and it's when the oil tankers across on the on the ocean in
front of my house. Everybody with beachpront property got this thing said hey,
fill this out if you feel he been harmed, and maybe filled it out,
and they gave me some money. I give it to my landlord.
It's his property. Okay. So Madonna got sued for that. Now she's
getting sued for something else because not only was she late, I guess they
made her watch they made the audience watch pornography while they're waiting and during the
show, and there was no warning that there was going to be pornography on
the screen. And you know, sometimes you go to a concert and you
don't know what they're gonna put on that screen for a while. That's why
I wouldn't see Morrissey because I don't want to see the stuff he puts on
his screen. So why do I want to be bummed out? He doesn't
do that anymore, But so I go. But uh, yeah, be
careful. Madonna thinks pornography is wholesome, So don't if you if you're looking
for something wholesome to do, don't go see a woman who named yourself after
the most important woman in the history of Earth, but doesn't really seem to
honor the Madonna. But you got a few hits. I'm not going to
deny. I'm not going to deny the hits. Got a few of them.
So are these people gonna win? Probably not. I don't think it
goes anywhere. They just want to be cool. I don't know what the
damages are for having to watch pornography in this day and age. You're gonna
tell them all my kids were there, Okay, If I'm the judge,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna rule in favor of you somehow,
try to figure out what your damages are. It's not fair that you bring
your kid to Madonna show and they're showing pornography. But in today's day and
age, it's just kind of like I think most courts would say, you
know what you should have known. I don't see that. I don't think
that's gone so far. And in the concert business right now, for every
amazing tour you hear about Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift or whatever, there's another
band canceling tours because of poor ticket sales. And it's not really because of
the business, I think, And I'm reading an article in GQ about this.
It's not really because there's anything wrong with the concert business right now.
It's bands, you know, make mistakes and they go, well, let's
do an arena tour. Look at the money in this arena tour business.
And I've had this money presented to me by agents trying to get rid of
our agents. Look that I can do for you, or just now,
maybe not to get rid of our agent, to say, just play these
festivals. Look at this arena tour dollar figure that could that could be yours
at the end, and it's like, you know, something like, do
you want to split up one hundred million dollars at the end of this thing?
Wow, that sounds pretty big. Okay, well, we're gonna book
all these arenas. But sometimes you're not big enough to fill an arena,
and then these shows get canceled. And so that's kind of what this article
in GQ is about. And it's kind of interesting because you know, when
you and there was Okay, here's another interesting thing about this article. The
reason why I wanted to read it to you. Some people are getting like
this one Kim Petris, this artist I don't know but or him at such
an awful time with their arena tour that they resorted to group on. You've
probably seen this and there are there's like a website called or it's a Twitter
account underface value at underface Value, and it tracks the price drops and under
old shows and other peculiarities across the ticketing ecosystem. It's mantra. That's what
this mantra is because soft sales translate into crazy eleventh hour price breaks. Oh
yeah, the mantra is hashtag pays to wait. If you'd waited for the
right moment, you could have seen The Rolling Stones in Seattle for twenty nine
dollars, twenty one Savage in Chicago for nineteen dollars, George Straight, and
Chris Stapleton in Indianapolis for thirteen dollars. I'd just like to see George strait
anyway. I don't even know he's playing, So I do that a lot.
I did that with the World Series I went to. I just didn't
buy a ticket. I went, I went, and I waited till right
when the game started and the prices plummeted, and I got in and watched
the Houston Astros cheat. So let me give you that Twitter account again.
Hash tag pays to wait, and the waiting thing to get those cheap tickets
is just I mean, you're you're playing, you're gambling, so you gotta
do it. When you don't, you don't care, and then you go.
You see, what are these tickets prices like the day of the show,
an hour before the show, what are they? Sometimes they go down
to almost nothing. So sometimes you get burned and you're gonna be stuck outside
or you're gonna play way over face value. And speaking of face value,
don't forget the No Values show on June eighth, where the Vandals we'll play
with supply the Pomona Fair plays a bunch of other punk rock bands like Inky
Pop, Social Distortion, Bad of Digit, the Aquabats at Syndrome. All
right, I think we'll just cut it there, and I will now leave
you just a taste of the greatest song you ever written from Thank You.