WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:14.119 Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank across the street from a 2 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:18.640 Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer. This is Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood with two 3 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:22.719 hours of the business end of show Business every Sunday here on k E I 4 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:27.440 B eleven fifty on your AM dial. Today. We've got a lot of 5 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:34.840 stuff going on tonight. We have the Johnny Ramon tribute event that's going on 6 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:44.600 right now at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery where they're showing pulp fiction and John Travolta 7 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.079 is there. You could get down there. I don't know if you can 8 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:51.359 get tickets sold out, but that's going on right now and this weekend. 9 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:57.679 I just got back from Virginia Beach to the Point blank Point Break Festival where 10 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:07.200 Sublime headlined a you know, reggae Vibes festival. Huge. That's the band 11 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:11.359 I manage, So I'm there, all right. I have very sad news 12 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:14.519 to start out with today, but I want to get it out of the 13 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:19.519 way. A very dear friend of mine named Albert Ruddy died. He was 14 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:29.680 my showbiz Hollywood writing producing mentor. I first met al He's very famous. 15 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.040 You're gonna I'm gonna blow your mind right now. He's ninety five. He 16 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:36.760 died at age of ninety four this past week, and I'm gonna blow your 17 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:42.640 mind with this guy. I met him when I was working at CBS Television 18 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:47.400 on a show called Walker Texas Ranger. He was the creator. He's the 19 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:52.400 guy that said, you know what, we can turn Chuck Norris action film 20 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:57.599 star into a TV star because I think everybody in America would like this guy 21 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.000 to come into their home and kick some bad guy asses. And he was 22 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:05.159 right, and it was a huge success over two hundred episodes. And at 23 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:07.959 some point in the in that show, I think I've told this story before, 24 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:15.680 Chuck Norris gave me a copy of a song written by one of his 25 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.080 black belts, he said, and it was called the Eyes of a Ranger, 26 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:20.080 and he said, this is pretty good song, don't you think, 27 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.280 Joe? And he knew I was in the music business too, so he 28 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:25.159 said, what do you tell me what you think? And I said, 29 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:28.879 here's what I think. I think we should make this the new theme of 30 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.719 Walker Texas Ranger. It's only been on the show for just one season at 31 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:35.840 that point, and I think you should sing it and he goes, Oh, 32 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:38.199 no, Joe, I can't sing. I go know, it's going 33 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.120 to be like the Beverly Hillbillies theme, like more recitation. You're just gonna 34 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:44.599 have to sing this chorus. We'll get a vocal coach in the studio. 35 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:47.800 I'll walk you through it. It'll be great. I was. You know, 36 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:50.879 there's a lot of people in the studio. I got credit for producing 37 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:55.680 the track, and that's my Chuck Norris Ster. I guess. But let 38 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:59.960 me get back to already already made that happen. It made a lot, 39 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:06.360 a lot of things happen. If you can meet any one guy in show 40 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:08.840 business and have them tell you a great show business story, you could do 41 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:15.759 probably no better than to try to meet the guy that sold the show Hogan's 42 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:21.360 Heroes to the CBS television network in nineteen sixty three. If you don't know 43 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:27.280 anything about Hogan's Heroes, Hogan's Heroes is a comedy about a German prison camp 44 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:34.759 during the Nazi You know, the Nazis are running Germany. They got a 45 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:40.159 prison camp and this is a comedy about some Americans, Brits, French people. 46 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:45.520 They're all in the prison camp and they're not really trying to escape. 47 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.560 They're just trying to help the war effort, and they're trying to foil the 48 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:52.599 Nazis. This is a half hour sitcom. Okay, we've all seen it. 49 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:54.400 We know it went eight hours or eight years. We know it was 50 00:03:54.439 --> 00:04:00.360 a giant success. But can you imagine being the guy walking in to a 51 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:04.560 room. I mean you can say, you have to say it as a 52 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:13.759 room full of Jews, and you pitch Hogan's heroes. Who is that guy? 53 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.519 Well, that guy was already and uh so, you know, genius 54 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:21.439 of all of all time in television. Uh he told me that story many 55 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:26.399 times. How he sold it. Maybe I'll tell it later or whatever, 56 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.079 but not today. I'll tell it some other time. I don't feel like 57 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:32.839 telling it right now, but it'll come up, the topic will come up, 58 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:36.319 and I'll tell that story more detail. But he did sell it, 59 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:41.600 and it went eight years. And then after that he's like, I want 60 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:46.240 to make movies. So he ends up hustling and getting the job as the 61 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:55.680 producer of The Godfather and from from Paramount, from the head of Paramount, 62 00:04:56.199 --> 00:05:02.680 and he ends up winning the af for Best Picture on what many people consider 63 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:09.800 the greatest film ever made. So you go from Hogan's heroes to the Godfather, 64 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.959 and after that he makes in that the Godfather's nineteen seventy two, the 65 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:19.199 nineteen seventy four he makes The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds, one of the 66 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:24.040 greatest, definitely the greatest football movie ever made, one of the greatest prison 67 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:30.120 movies ever made. Cannonball Run nineteen eighty one, another Burt Reynolds thing. 68 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:36.759 Just a classic million Dollar Baby in two thousand and four wins him another Oscar 69 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:46.879 for Best Picture, So unbelievable career. Just did a just a couple of 70 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:51.839 years ago, him and Clint Eastwood directed a movie of his as a movie 71 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:58.240 he actually asked me to rewrite and CRII macho is the name of that one. 72 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:00.319 And I was just about to rewrite that one, as development executives said, 73 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:03.399 now, Joe, don't do that. Everybody's taken a stab at that, 74 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:05.680 and you should work on the other things he wants you to work on. 75 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.759 Anyway, So over the years I ended up writing stuff for him, 76 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:17.800 And I wrote a gangster movie about some black gangsters and during prohibition smuggling rum 77 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:23.519 runners during the Prohibition, and then I wrote a Western comedy with him, 78 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:30.079 and I wrote some movies with already Ringo. It was a comedy, you 79 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:34.480 know, frontier Western comedy. I wrote another one with him. We called 80 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:40.680 it the untitled Kansas Missouri Project. It was about a group of prostitutes on 81 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:46.160 a quest for a treasure in the Old West. It was fun. And 82 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.519 then but the thing that I had the most fun writing for him was well, 83 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:54.839 actually, when I wrote the Gangster thing for him, I slipped in 84 00:06:55.399 --> 00:07:00.639 a copy of my version of a new reboot of Hogan's Heroes, and I 85 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:04.879 had heard less Moonvest move actually is his development guy came in with an email 86 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:09.000 from less Moonvest said, les has this email for He'd print out all his 87 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.959 emails because's getting kind of old. He does not not really you know, 88 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.160 computer guy. So his assistant would print out these emails and say this is 89 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:19.319 from less Moonvest. He wants to know where the Hogan's Heroes reboot is and 90 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:21.600 he goes, oh, okay, I better get on that, and so 91 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.759 he asked me to write something. I write it. I handed in, 92 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:30.360 but I also hand in a reboot of Hogan's Heroes. And what I tried 93 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:34.839 to do was make it like as ballsy as when he sold this Nazi comedy 94 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:39.879 in nineteen sixty three. This is just eighteen years after World War Two's over. 95 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:44.319 That's when he handed this in. That's like eighteen years ago from now 96 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:48.360 is like, you know, twenty two thousand and eight or two thousand and 97 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:54.120 six, So that's a picture two thousand and six, that's when World War 98 00:07:54.120 --> 00:08:01.279 two ended. Then he's writing this comedy pitching it to CBS. So I 99 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:03.800 try to do something as ballsy. I didn't want to go back to Germany, 100 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:09.000 so I set this thing in Guantanamo Bay. And it's four Muslims that 101 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.639 have been caught up in the in the War on Terror. They've been kidnapped, 102 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.360 sold to the Americans. Oh yeah, these we can have these guys, 103 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.439 put them in your prison. And they're four guys and they don't belong 104 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:26.000 there, and but they really don't want to escape because if they get out, 105 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.560 they'll be killed because they really didn't fight for the cause of you know, 106 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:35.240 true Islam. So it's like, you know, it's classic sitcom. 107 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.559 These four guys. One of them's a BRONI. You know, they get 108 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:46.360 into just enough mischief to get in a lot of trouble. But then they're 109 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:50.879 back where they started every episode because they get you know, caught, and 110 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:52.720 they're thrown back into and they have a tunnel and they go into town in 111 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.200 Guantanamo Bay and one of them has a job at Pizza Hut or something. 112 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:00.840 Anyway, Ali said was the funniest thing he'd read years. He called me 113 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:03.840 as he called me, like the funniest writer in Hollywood during that time. 114 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:05.919 We went around and we tried to sell it. We went in a lot 115 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.000 of meetings. It was a lot of fun just to go to meetings with 116 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:15.440 Already and sell The new version of of Hogan's Heroes was called Hussein's Heroes, 117 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.559 and eventually most of the showrunners in towns. The way the way it works 118 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:24.559 is I'm gonna explain right after this break, this is kind of illustrative of 119 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:31.080 television business of why this show did not sell. Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood. 120 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:37.879 Joe scolantate Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank And I 121 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.919 want to continue with the salute to al Ready. So with Already, you 122 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:46.279 know, he produced, he created Hogan's Heroes. In nineteen sixty three, 123 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:50.799 he creates, He becomes the producer of the Godfather, gets the best Picture 124 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:58.360 Oscar for that Walker Texas Ranger. That's where I meet him at CBS and 125 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:03.000 I'm writing I hand in something to him, but I sneak in the Hogan's 126 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.080 Heroes version that I want to do, which is who Hussein's Heroes. And 127 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:13.879 this is basically the prison is not in Nazi Germany anymore. It's in Guantanamo 128 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:18.799 Bay. You got four lovable characters that really don't want to leave. And 129 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:26.799 but the Schultz of this show, the Colonel Schultz, he is ahead of 130 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:28.399 the prison and he has to clear out the prison because the President just said, 131 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.120 you got to get this, we got to get rid of this prison. 132 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.159 I made a campaign promise I'm going to close down this prison, so 133 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.519 you got to close down that prison. Now, he doesn't want to close 134 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:41.039 down the prison because these people are all dangerous, but he has to close 135 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:43.360 down the prison because the President has told him he has to close it down. 136 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.279 And his wife, who was like, you know, super hot sitcom 137 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.679 wife, she wants off that island. So he's got to close it down. 138 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:54.000 So he but it's too hard because these guys are killers. So he 139 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:58.159 picks the four guys that don't belong there. The Broni and the gay one 140 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:01.759 and these and these other two, and he picks them because I'm gonna throw 141 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:07.559 you out, but he's gonna let him out, all right, good behavior. 142 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:13.360 So they get in just enough mischief every episode to not get released, 143 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.120 and they stay where they're at, and then they stay safe because they are 144 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:20.279 If they're sent back to their country, they will be killed because they're, 145 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:28.159 you know, the infidels. Now, so we go around trying to pitch 146 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:33.360 that and here's the problem we ran into. Although he thought it was brilliant, 147 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:39.799 although we ended up in the CBS productions and they thought it was brilliant. 148 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:41.639 So but they can't make me the showrunner because I had not been a 149 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:45.879 showrunner before, so they have to assign it to one of their showinners. 150 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:48.759 They have these overall deals that we've talked about on this show before. You 151 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.600 give some guy four million a year and then all this stuff he writes is 152 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:56.480 for you. Now, it's kind of hard to get people to be a 153 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:01.080 showrunner for someone else's idea because they have their own ideas and if you tell 154 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.159 them, hey, you're going to show run this idea, we like it, 155 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.159 and he's like that show runner's like, well, I'd rather show run 156 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:09.320 my own ideas, because why would I want to share created by credit with 157 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:13.799 this smuck over here, Joe Scillante. So that's one of the problems. 158 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:18.759 The other problem was every time we would get close to selling the show, 159 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:22.360 there'd be a terrorist attack somewhere, and then we'd have to back off because 160 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:26.679 the terrorist attack was in the news and we are we are having a terrorist 161 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:33.240 comedy. So that's where it stayed. And then every once in a while 162 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:35.000 someone would come in and say, ah, I want to remake Hogan's Heroes, 163 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.679 and they would it'd be like a big famous person and they would, 164 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.399 you know, try, but nothing would happen. Then he dig out my 165 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:45.879 script again and we would try. It didn't happen. But I'll tell you 166 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:48.759 what, I just loved working with already. What a legend, what a 167 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:54.679 sweetheart guy. And man, I mean, I just always wanted to meet 168 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:56.679 the guy that sold the Hogan's Heroes. And then I became his friend, 169 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:05.240 and you know, he show me his Oscar the Godfather won he had at 170 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.879 his house and we were writing there, and he's more proud of his tennis 171 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.360 court, actually super cool tennis court up in Beverly Hills. It's a quint 172 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:16.799 essential Beverly Hills guy. He went to USC. He was like a shoe 173 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.440 salesman. And then someone in his apartment building was writing scripts all the time, 174 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.559 and he asked him, what are you doing as I'm writing scripts? 175 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:24.919 And he found out what he was getting paid, and he said, let 176 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:28.600 me take a crack at that. And then they worked on some ideas, 177 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.399 and then he and that guy went and pitched the Hoogan Heroes. Anyway, 178 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:35.960 I could go on all day. What an honor it was to work with 179 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:41.279 him and know him and call him my friend. Already dead at ninety four, 180 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:48.919 Super sad. Okay, let's shift gears here. That's what we do. 181 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:52.799 Right when we stopped talking about stuff like that, Let's go to the 182 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:58.480 movies of this week. What happened this week in the theaters? What did 183 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.279 we have? Well? I went to see a movie that I'm kind of 184 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.960 mad that I didn't see earlier. That movie is called The Fall Guy. 185 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.080 The Fall Guy is a you know what it is. It's based on a 186 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:16.279 TV show, a Lee Major's TV show. After The Million six Million Dollar 187 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:18.840 Man, Lee Major's next next hit show was The Fall Guy. We probably 188 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:24.000 plays a stunt guy with a heart, you know. So this is Ryan 189 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:37.159 Gosling and Emily Blunt directed by a guy who is named David Leech, but 190 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:45.879 we can just call him the the John Wick director. That guy, he's 191 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.840 like a stunt director. Everyone knows that John Wick started from a stunt director. 192 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:54.799 And Keanu Reeve is not going to make this action movie series totally successful, 193 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:56.000 so he does this one. It's hilarious. Written by guy named Drew 194 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:03.120 Pierce who wrote Ironman three and Mission Impossible, Rogue Nation. But I don't 195 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.480 know where this guy got his comedy chops, because this movie was hilarious. 196 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.080 Ryan Gosling is hilarious anyway. He's the biggest talent out there right now. 197 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.960 I think he's number one. I think, after Ken and after this, 198 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:20.200 I think he moves ahead of Matt Damon. He moves ahead of Leonardo DiCaprio, 199 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.720 he moves ahead of Brad Pitt. Ryan Gosling is the guy. He 200 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.480 moves ahead. Yeah, I said it. He moves ahead of Tom Cruise. 201 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:33.240 I would say, of all those people, Ryan Gosling is the guy 202 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:35.600 I'd go see any movie. Any movie he makes, I'm gonna go see 203 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:41.639 it. It used to be that. I used to feel that way about 204 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:46.080 you know a lot of different actors, Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, 205 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:50.120 Robert de Niro. Let's just talk about that guy. Oh my lord, 206 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:54.440 that guy just went off the rails. Okay, let's talk about it. 207 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:58.279 We had this legal case this past week, and since this is a legal 208 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:03.240 show, I'm a lawyer, I'll give you my opinion. It looks to 209 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:10.600 me like a bunch of enemies, political enemies of Donald Trump, decided to 210 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:18.559 break every rule known to the Constitution in a trial and they didn't care, 211 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:21.039 and they knew they were doing it, and they knew it would get reversed 212 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:22.519 in appeal, but they said, let's just do it. Let's just do 213 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.639 everything. I'm the judge, you're the prosecutor. We will railroad this guy 214 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:33.519 and we will break all the rules. And we know it's going to get 215 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:37.000 reversed, but we don't care. Why don't we care because that will come 216 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:40.879 after the election. All we need to do is get a conviction. Now, 217 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:45.759 it's genius in an evil kind of way. But wow, I mean 218 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:48.399 I know people like that. I know people that would say, like you 219 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:49.879 could say, well, that's wrong because they could do that to you later, 220 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:53.600 or that's wrong. No matter what he did, that's wrong because justice 221 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:56.759 needs to be you know, blind and equal. I don't care. I 222 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.320 mean, I have friends would just say I don't care. I don't care. 223 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:04.440 I don't care. I hate Donald Trump, I don't care. So 224 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:10.440 me, I don't hate Donald Trump. I used to like dislike him when 225 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:12.480 he was on TV, but I don't hate him. I don't hate Joe 226 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:18.039 Biden. I don't hate any of these people, but I do. I'm 227 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:27.200 shocked at what they did because they what they did was wrong, just objectively 228 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:33.480 wrong, changing the rules and depriving of someone of their rights, even though 229 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:38.839 you know it's going to get overturned, just so you can be able to 230 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:44.079 try to derail an election instead of just going and seeing who votes for who. 231 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:48.519 So it probably backfire on him. I don't know. But that's the 232 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:51.440 end of that. We won't talk about that anymore. Back to Ryan Gosling 233 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:53.880 in the movies. In the movies, Okay, so The Fall Guy so 234 00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:00.160 great, such a great movie. It's just just like you know, there's 235 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:06.920 there's a it's like a Mission impossible movie with all the action. You get 236 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:15.480 all that action, but it's also hilarious. It's funny. So highly recommended 237 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:18.039 The Fall Guy. People said it was a flop, and maybe it was 238 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:22.200 a flop. Didn't We'll check the box office records in the next segment. 239 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:26.839 But you know, they told us it was a fop, but they didn't 240 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.480 tell us how good it was. So I it's my biggest recommendation of the 241 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:37.640 week. I have some other streaming recommendations coming up after the break and you 242 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:45.519 get to those. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood 243 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:48.319 is by Hollywood? You mean bur Bank. We're still going through the business 244 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:56.240 end of show business here on a Sunday night, Hollywood. Okay, Burbank. 245 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:00.039 What's going on in Hollywood? Really in Holly with tonight is the Johnny 246 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:06.160 Roman tribute event that was gone for a while. It's back. I go 247 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:14.440 every year. I'll be over there right after this hob knobbing. Okay, 248 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:22.799 So we're going to go back to the movies. Okay, what did I 249 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.839 see? I saw The Fall Guy, and then in the streaming world, 250 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:30.359 I saw a movie called The Two Escobars. It might have been a thirty 251 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:34.160 for thirty thirty by thirty or whatever, thirty for thirty what do you call 252 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.559 those things? Sports documentary? But I do recommend it. The Two Escobars 253 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:44.039 is about Pablo Escobar and Escobar on Dada's Escobar is the guy who scored a 254 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:48.880 goal in his own goal during the World Cup match, or it wasn't a 255 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.519 World Cup match. I guess it was a World Cup. It was at 256 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:55.799 the It was right here in Los Angeles. They have World Cups here. 257 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.519 I don't know, you can tell how good I was paying attention. I 258 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:00.759 really liked it, though I didn't I know. There was Narco Soccer that 259 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:07.400 different Narco bosses owned different soccer teams and they poured a bunch of money into 260 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:10.039 them, their drug money to get better players and keep the better players. 261 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:14.920 And it did work, and they put Colombian soccer on the map. So 262 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.039 that's on Netflix or something off the frond of the Two esca Bars on the 263 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:25.359 Criterion channel. This week, I watched a tasty little gem called Point Blank 264 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:30.880 with Lee Marvin. Lee Marvin. This is a nineteen sixty seven movie directed 265 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:36.160 by John Borman. John Borman that attracted me to watch this. You know, 266 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:37.440 there's a lot of stuff on Criterion you could never watch it all. 267 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:44.240 But I saw this and I'm like, Okay, Lee Marvin Andrew Dickinson, 268 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:52.799 directed by John Borman. That's the director of Deliverance. One of the greatest 269 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:56.519 films ever made. Deliverance was nineteen seventy two. I mean, what a 270 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:04.640 year for movies, nineteen seventy to come on The Godfather Deliverance. The funny 271 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:11.319 thing is is I never saw The Godfather until way later, but Deliverance. 272 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:15.200 I read the book. I found it in the thrifties and the Seal Beach 273 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:22.519 shopping center Rossmore. I read it. It said soon to be a major 274 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:26.599 motion picture. So my stepmother used to always be like, every time we 275 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:27.200 see a movie, she goes, oh, it wasn't as good as the 276 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:30.640 book. And I'm like, I see another movie, Oh, I wasn't 277 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.440 good as the book. Who's reading all these books? And how do you 278 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.119 know that they're going to make movies of these books? It wasn't this book. 279 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:44.240 That's about how much I liked her. It was the book. So 280 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:49.160 I had a couple of stepmothers this one and like, but but I go, 281 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:52.119 you know what, I'm gonna read a movie before. I'm gonna read 282 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:53.799 a book before a movie. So I go to thrifty and here's a book 283 00:21:53.880 --> 00:22:02.599 says, mind you, I'm ten, okay, maybe nine, what was 284 00:22:02.599 --> 00:22:10.119 it nineteen seventy two, I'm nine, Okay, that might be eight because 285 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:12.559 this is before the movie came out. Okay, so I'm eight. So 286 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:15.960 eight year old goes into thrifty and sees a book. It says it sooned 287 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:18.720 to be a major motion picture. Oh I got you got me there. 288 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:22.640 Books back then were only like a real good one, a nice one like 289 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.119 that would be like two dollars and twenty five cents. I could scare that 290 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:32.240 up just pop bottles. So I get it. I read it. Whoa 291 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:38.079 gonna just you know some of it? Maybe I didn't understand pretty mouth stuff. 292 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:42.519 Why would he still tell me as a pretty mouth eight year old? 293 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:48.680 You don't know that? So anyway, that's John Borman. And then I 294 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:49.519 got to say, oh, it's not as good as the book, but 295 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:52.200 it was as good as the book. It was. He was a liar. 296 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:55.319 Those movies were all probably as good as the books. She just wanted 297 00:22:55.359 --> 00:23:03.440 to So she was anyway, Lee Marvin, some kind of gangster roaming around 298 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:07.960 Los Angeles, and they're gonna and San Francisco actually, and he and some 299 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:14.359 guy are gonna rob these people, these gangsters, and they're hiding money. 300 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:17.839 They're gonna be able to big money transfer on Alcatraz. I didn't know in 301 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:22.759 nineteen sixty seven Alcatraz was still had already closed, so they were. They 302 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:26.559 had tours there in nineteen sixty seven, so that's kind of cool. There's 303 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:30.319 a lot of exteriors for Los Angeles and San Francisco in the movie point blank 304 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:37.200 that are interesting. And so it gets double crossed, and so he spends 305 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:40.440 a whole movie trying to find the guy at double cross him. Basically that's 306 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:45.599 the plot. But how do they go about it. They go about it 307 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:51.279 by making a French new wave film to tell the story. I mean, 308 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:56.400 that's all this is. This is a French new wave film with English dialogue, 309 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:00.400 so you know you can tell. John Borman saw thench new wave movies 310 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.839 and he said, I want to be like these guys. These guys are 311 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:07.839 getting a lot of attention. So he made one. Little did he know, 312 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:11.400 I don't know a lot of people don't know. Pardon me, I 313 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:17.400 don't have a cough button here. A lot of people don't know that the 314 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:23.559 French new wave movement was basically a the French new wave makers influenced by American 315 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:26.200 filmmakers, and they took it over there and they ran with it. If 316 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:30.200 you want to see what what what A lot of people call the one of 317 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:34.920 the influences of the French new wave filmmakers of the sixties was a move movie 318 00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:40.319 called The Little Fugitive. If you if you watch one movie I talk about 319 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:44.400 this week, watch The Little Fugitive. It's an old movie from the sixties. 320 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:48.440 Oh, it's just it's precious, this movie anyway, point blank, 321 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.680 you could you could get by with not seeing it. But if you have 322 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:57.079 the Criterion channel in your and your going by here and you like French new 323 00:24:57.079 --> 00:25:00.640 wave movies and you want to see like them, attempt one and it was 324 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:03.960 not a fail. It was good. It was as good as you know 325 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:10.160 most any French new wave movie I would watch, point blank, all right, 326 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:15.359 any other crap that I watched. You know, when I see people 327 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:18.559 and they talk about my right radio show, the most often, the biggest, 328 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:21.880 the most often they say this, Oh you told me about something, 329 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:26.599 and I watched it and I liked it. So let's try to make recommendations 330 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:33.680 let's shift over to the movie theater business. The movie theater business, there's 331 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:38.599 two. It's kind of a rivalry going on there right now. And what 332 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:44.200 people think is going to save the music the movie business, And one of 333 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:47.680 them is the people say shaking seats is going to save the movie business. 334 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:51.960 Now, last week I saw Furiosa and I sat right next to a guy 335 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:56.119 in one of the shaking seats at the cinema four D X chairs. They're 336 00:25:56.200 --> 00:26:02.000 gyroscopic, they move around. They went a gunfight happens. You hear every 337 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:06.440 bullet, you feel every bullet. There's water that squirts and smoke and stuff 338 00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:08.680 like that. If you sit right next to one. In some of the 339 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:11.759 theaters, you can sit one next to one and you get a little bit 340 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:15.279 of it spilling over. And then I realized I should have sat in one 341 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:21.920 for Mad Max. That would have been the smart move, the four DX 342 00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:29.599 gyroscopic action chair for So this is so if you haven't seen Feir Yosa, 343 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:33.240 which you probably haven't see it in one of these shaking chairs at the cinemak 344 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:36.960 or wherever they have in four DX cinema cosm, I can tell you that 345 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:40.599 right now. So some people say that's what's going to bring younger people in. 346 00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:42.400 They got to make it something you can't get at home. And other 347 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:45.839 people are saying, you know what, it's just you've got to make better 348 00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:48.960 movies, and you got to make less of these big giant blockbusters you're trying 349 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.440 to. Everything's got to be a blockbuster. Since Jaws. It's the guy 350 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:55.279 Bob left sets and his letter said, ever since Jaws and Star Wars, 351 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:56.920 everyone's like, look how much money could be made with a blockbuster. Let's 352 00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:04.400 make only blockbusters and failed MP set blockbusters. But the argument is, you 353 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:07.759 don't have enough money to do that because not enough people are going to the 354 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:10.480 movie. So why don't you take all that money and just makes a bunch 355 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:12.680 of good movies, Like, you don't have to make just blockbusters. Why 356 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:17.440 don't you take less blockbusters. You're gonna spend two hundred million on a blockbuster. 357 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:21.920 Why don't you make six thirty million dollar movies for one hundred and eighty 358 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:25.160 million and take twenty million and change and put it in your pocket? Okay, 359 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:29.200 Like, let's see a great movie I liked last year, the Zone 360 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:36.880 of Interest. I would like five Zone of interest. Please. I don't 361 00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:41.480 need anymore Marvel movies. Will that put people in the seats? I think 362 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:45.000 it will. You know, also, you got to have them put them 363 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:49.480 in theaters and don't put them in the streamers right away. I guess you 364 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:53.839 know. But is it the shaking seats? Is it just movies? I 365 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:56.519 don't know. You can make a comment on my Facebook page if you want. 366 00:27:56.799 --> 00:27:59.920 All right, let's take a break and we'll come back with them. 367 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:26.880 Or Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Askante, here's my lawyer. You 368 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:30.920 don't want money. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean 369 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:33.599 burd Banks, we are back. Yeah. We have commercials, we have 370 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.200 traffic, We have all that stuff. Some people listen to this as a 371 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.359 podcast and they're like, where do you keep going, Joe, Well, 372 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.880 we have commercials, we have a traffic guy, we have a news people 373 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:52.599 that give updates, surreal AM radio. It's a real deal. So hey, 374 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:56.559 remember that movie, Dude, Where's My Jet? I would take a 375 00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:00.960 documentary series, maybe even it was where the guy Pepsi was? It was 376 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:06.519 he said, if you buy enough pepsis and you get these points, they 377 00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:15.759 will give you a jet, a military grade jet. Some guy did the 378 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.640 math and found out you could buy these points too, and it found out 379 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:22.119 that it would cost seven hundred thousand dollars in points to buy this jet, 380 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:26.759 but the jet was worth millions. So he got some investors and he bought 381 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:29.519 the points and PEPSI said go away, and they wouldn't give it to him. 382 00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:33.480 Went to trial. It went to trial. The court said, PEPSI 383 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:36.759 wins this. This was sicilly, you're not you're not. You're not getting 384 00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:42.480 a jet. And sometimes corporations are allowed to do stuff like that, just 385 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:47.160 kind of make outrageous claims called puffing. Say this is the fastest car in 386 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:48.839 the world. I drove it. It wasn't very fast. I'm suing him. 387 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:52.599 No, it's just called puffing. You gotta live with that. It's 388 00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:56.839 like, just don't be a jerk anyway. Why am I bringing this up? 389 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:02.400 Because liquid death that water? Weird, bro, they're giving away a 390 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:04.079 jet. They're just giving it away, so they're really gonna actually give away 391 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:07.319 a jet, and that's how they get people like me to talk about their 392 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.559 dumb water. But there's nothing wrong with the water. I'm just bitter that 393 00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:15.839 I didn't invest in it. Okay, that's fine. You can understand that, 394 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:25.559 right. Okay, Hey, there's something I haven't told you. June 395 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:30.119 twenty third at the Los Alamitos Museum. There's gonna be a grand reopening in 396 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.240 Los Alamitos. That's in Orange County, not too far from Hollywood, where 397 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.079 this film is supposedly or this radio show is supposedly broadcast. It's in Orange 398 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:44.039 County, in between like Seal Beach and Long Beach around there, but in 399 00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:48.039 the Orange County sign they got a little museum. It's a cute little museum, 400 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:51.640 and they're gonna do an installation process and they're gonna honor me and put 401 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:55.799 me in their Hall of Fame on June twenty third at two pm, and 402 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:57.240 I think we're gonna you know, we're gonna have like a taco guy and 403 00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:02.119 some drinks and we're going to a party afterwards at a bar next door called 404 00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:03.839 the Boondocks, which is probably the worst bar in America, but we're gonna 405 00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:08.279 do it anyway because you can walk there. So if you look at my 406 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:12.119 Facebook page of my Instagram, you'll see more info on that, and it 407 00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:15.559 might be fun if you're in the area, come and say hi. So 408 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:19.039 they just called me out of the Blue and said, hey, we'd like 409 00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:22.200 to honor you at the and put you in our Hall of Fame at the 410 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:26.119 Los Almeidas Museum grand opening. This is like a cold call. I just 411 00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.000 I have to answer any call now because I'm managing Sublime and it could be 412 00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:33.440 anybody, So I answer it. This lady says you're gonna honor me. 413 00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:36.599 They're going to honor we'd like to honor you. I'm like, okay. 414 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:40.559 First I thought it was a prank, and I realized slowly, I realized 415 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:44.119 this it might be real. She goes, yeah, we're honoring you for 416 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:53.240 your achievements. That's really all she said, for your achievements. So yeah, 417 00:31:55.000 --> 00:32:02.799 come on by. Madonna's getting sued again. You know, she got 418 00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:07.200 sued for being late on her concerts. Class action suits. A couple fans 419 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:10.079 get together and they say, I've been harmed. How are you harmed? 420 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:14.680 Well, I was harmed because it says here the thing's going to start at 421 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:19.480 eight and started at twelve thirty. Got a sitter, got actual damages here. 422 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:24.519 Then you get other people. You added class action suit, and you 423 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:28.880 know who makes money on a class action suit, the lawyers, because the 424 00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:31.119 other side has to pay their legal fees, so they just start cranking out 425 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:36.319 the fees. You got ten lawyers working at thirty five hundred dollars apiece an 426 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:38.279 hour, thirty five hundred an hour apiece. I now have heard of a 427 00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:43.720 guy making over five thousand an hour. So you could get some high priced 428 00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:46.920 lawyers cranking up some bills and then if you win, those guys get all 429 00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:50.680 the money. And then they pass out coupons to all the people were harmed, 430 00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:53.000 because were they really harmed that much? No? Not really. That's 431 00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:58.759 why you know. I don't really fill out those things when people send me 432 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:00.559 stuff that says you're part of a class section suit, except for once I 433 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:05.880 did, and it's when the oil tankers across on the on the ocean in 434 00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:08.279 front of my house. Everybody with beachpront property got this thing said hey, 435 00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:15.319 fill this out if you feel he been harmed, and maybe filled it out, 436 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:17.960 and they gave me some money. I give it to my landlord. 437 00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:25.559 It's his property. Okay. So Madonna got sued for that. Now she's 438 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:30.480 getting sued for something else because not only was she late, I guess they 439 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:34.559 made her watch they made the audience watch pornography while they're waiting and during the 440 00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.119 show, and there was no warning that there was going to be pornography on 441 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:42.920 the screen. And you know, sometimes you go to a concert and you 442 00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:45.799 don't know what they're gonna put on that screen for a while. That's why 443 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:47.240 I wouldn't see Morrissey because I don't want to see the stuff he puts on 444 00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:51.519 his screen. So why do I want to be bummed out? He doesn't 445 00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:54.920 do that anymore, But so I go. But uh, yeah, be 446 00:33:55.279 --> 00:34:02.440 careful. Madonna thinks pornography is wholesome, So don't if you if you're looking 447 00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:07.079 for something wholesome to do, don't go see a woman who named yourself after 448 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:13.800 the most important woman in the history of Earth, but doesn't really seem to 449 00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:17.840 honor the Madonna. But you got a few hits. I'm not going to 450 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.079 deny. I'm not going to deny the hits. Got a few of them. 451 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:27.679 So are these people gonna win? Probably not. I don't think it 452 00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:31.079 goes anywhere. They just want to be cool. I don't know what the 453 00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:36.800 damages are for having to watch pornography in this day and age. You're gonna 454 00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:40.280 tell them all my kids were there, Okay, If I'm the judge, 455 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:45.280 I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna rule in favor of you somehow, 456 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:46.920 try to figure out what your damages are. It's not fair that you bring 457 00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:52.159 your kid to Madonna show and they're showing pornography. But in today's day and 458 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:54.880 age, it's just kind of like I think most courts would say, you 459 00:34:54.880 --> 00:35:00.679 know what you should have known. I don't see that. I don't think 460 00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:06.519 that's gone so far. And in the concert business right now, for every 461 00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:15.559 amazing tour you hear about Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift or whatever, there's another 462 00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:22.079 band canceling tours because of poor ticket sales. And it's not really because of 463 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:25.480 the business, I think, And I'm reading an article in GQ about this. 464 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:29.800 It's not really because there's anything wrong with the concert business right now. 465 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:37.079 It's bands, you know, make mistakes and they go, well, let's 466 00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:39.519 do an arena tour. Look at the money in this arena tour business. 467 00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:46.000 And I've had this money presented to me by agents trying to get rid of 468 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:49.239 our agents. Look that I can do for you, or just now, 469 00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:52.119 maybe not to get rid of our agent, to say, just play these 470 00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:57.639 festivals. Look at this arena tour dollar figure that could that could be yours 471 00:35:57.679 --> 00:35:59.760 at the end, and it's like, you know, something like, do 472 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:04.599 you want to split up one hundred million dollars at the end of this thing? 473 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:08.280 Wow, that sounds pretty big. Okay, well, we're gonna book 474 00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:15.760 all these arenas. But sometimes you're not big enough to fill an arena, 475 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:20.159 and then these shows get canceled. And so that's kind of what this article 476 00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:25.159 in GQ is about. And it's kind of interesting because you know, when 477 00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:29.320 you and there was Okay, here's another interesting thing about this article. The 478 00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:34.119 reason why I wanted to read it to you. Some people are getting like 479 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:40.119 this one Kim Petris, this artist I don't know but or him at such 480 00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:45.360 an awful time with their arena tour that they resorted to group on. You've 481 00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:53.559 probably seen this and there are there's like a website called or it's a Twitter 482 00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:59.840 account underface value at underface Value, and it tracks the price drops and under 483 00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:06.079 old shows and other peculiarities across the ticketing ecosystem. It's mantra. That's what 484 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:13.039 this mantra is because soft sales translate into crazy eleventh hour price breaks. Oh 485 00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:17.159 yeah, the mantra is hashtag pays to wait. If you'd waited for the 486 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:22.360 right moment, you could have seen The Rolling Stones in Seattle for twenty nine 487 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:30.119 dollars, twenty one Savage in Chicago for nineteen dollars, George Straight, and 488 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:35.599 Chris Stapleton in Indianapolis for thirteen dollars. I'd just like to see George strait 489 00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:38.840 anyway. I don't even know he's playing, So I do that a lot. 490 00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:42.119 I did that with the World Series I went to. I just didn't 491 00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:44.519 buy a ticket. I went, I went, and I waited till right 492 00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:49.880 when the game started and the prices plummeted, and I got in and watched 493 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:58.360 the Houston Astros cheat. So let me give you that Twitter account again. 494 00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:05.440 Hash tag pays to wait, and the waiting thing to get those cheap tickets 495 00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:08.000 is just I mean, you're you're playing, you're gambling, so you gotta 496 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:12.039 do it. When you don't, you don't care, and then you go. 497 00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:14.599 You see, what are these tickets prices like the day of the show, 498 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:20.800 an hour before the show, what are they? Sometimes they go down 499 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:25.639 to almost nothing. So sometimes you get burned and you're gonna be stuck outside 500 00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:30.440 or you're gonna play way over face value. And speaking of face value, 501 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:34.360 don't forget the No Values show on June eighth, where the Vandals we'll play 502 00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:38.360 with supply the Pomona Fair plays a bunch of other punk rock bands like Inky 503 00:38:38.440 --> 00:38:45.320 Pop, Social Distortion, Bad of Digit, the Aquabats at Syndrome. All 504 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:50.599 right, I think we'll just cut it there, and I will now leave 505 00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:52.039 you just a taste of the greatest song you ever written from Thank You.