WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:14.560 Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank, across the street from a Wiener 2 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.879 Snitzel that serves beer. This is two hours of the business end of show 3 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:25.399 business right here on k e IB eleven fifty on your AM dial. Sam 4 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:34.000 joins me here live from Burbank on a pretty nice Sunday evening, the seventeenth 5 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:37.880 of December. Sam, how's the things working? Did I did all that 6 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:41.320 work? Things worked? Yes? Okay, we seem to be on the 7 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:44.240 air. We seem to be floating. This is good, okay, good. 8 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:49.119 Well, we have a special guest today. We're going to be joined 9 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:54.840 at some point by mister Broadway Pants. Sometimes some people know me as mister 10 00:00:54.840 --> 00:01:00.719 Hollywood Pants, but they don't know is my nephew is mister Badway Pants. 11 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:06.719 And he's got a he's got a theater report for us, So you're gonna 12 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:11.599 hear all about what is happening, what is hot in live theater. And 13 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:18.159 he's straight from Broadway, just got off the plane, and he's gonna tell 14 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:22.879 us what's going on there and how it might affect you, the Los Angeles 15 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:29.439 person that might want to see some shows. Okay, let's get right into 16 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:34.599 the intellectual property issue going on right now. Sam, this is a this 17 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:40.159 is a joggernaut. I don't know if you know this, but January first 18 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:48.560 is the day that has long been feared, the day that Mickey Mouse goes 19 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:53.400 into public domain. This is no joke. Can you hear the evil in 20 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:57.359 my laugh? Do you know how many Mickey Mouse and like all of these 21 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:00.719 different Disney character themed idea that I want to roll with now that they're now 22 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:05.719 in the public domain. You're an evil person. I don't consider you an 23 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.080 American. I just don't. I am just anti American. I am going 24 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:13.759 to have some fun with Mickey. Okay, well, there's some restrictions, 25 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:15.199 Okay, okay, please tell me. I'd like to know what my legal 26 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:20.840 boundaries here are. Basically, the rat faced Mickey from Steamboat Willie. You 27 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:24.240 can play around with that, okay. Cool. You could probably show Steamboat 28 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:30.240 Willie in your anti American club that you belong to. I guess maybe you 29 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.759 could. You could show you could charge money to come in and watch it. 30 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.879 You could do you can manipulate it. Things like that. You just 31 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:44.319 can't take like newer Mickey, Like don't try to take new Mickey. Don't 32 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:47.800 try to you can't they still own that. They only lost they're only losing 33 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.639 control over Steamboat Willie Mickey. Okay, So the old stuff basically at what 34 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:59.719 year prior, like at what's the cutoff of between old Mickey and new Mickey? 35 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:02.560 Well, right now, just try to be safe and use Steamboat Willie 36 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:07.240 Mickey. Okay, that was released in nineteen twenty eight. It's got ninety 37 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:12.800 five years. This is the ninety fifth year and it only has ninety five 38 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:16.080 years because it used to have seventy five year years. But they extended it 39 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:22.000 in nineteen ninety eight, I think two twenty years more because they were in 40 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:25.039 a panic and now they're ready, you know, they're kind of ready. 41 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:32.159 All right. This is it's very rare for an image to go this long 42 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:37.879 and still be recognizable and be valuable because when you look at the stuff the 43 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:42.199 other stuff that goes into the public domain, and every year stuff's going into 44 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:52.000 the public domain. But some of it is like who cares? What have 45 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:57.360 we got? Like like a animal farm? People care about that. But 46 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:01.039 you know, there's there's this there's a lot of stuff that just goes just 47 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:05.039 goes in. And at one point, maybe in nineteen fifties, it was 48 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:12.879 very valuable stuff, and then after a while it just fades and then it 49 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.920 who cares? You know, Like, but people get alarmed when they hear 50 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.560 about like Sherlock Holmes going into the public domain. Now, not all Sherlock 51 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:25.040 Holmes is in the public domain, but some of it is. And then 52 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:31.519 there's we Need the Pooh last year we all know went into the public domain 53 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:39.560 and the result was a horror film on the Variety Magazine's Worst Films of twenty 54 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:43.759 twenty three. And now I assume they'll be a you could be you know, 55 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:47.399 Steamboat Willie, slasher film, you can do that, Steamboat Willie and 56 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:51.079 Train of Death. Is that what you're going with? I guess a train. 57 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:54.920 Yeah, he's on a train. Yeah. Why isn't it a steamboat? 58 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.000 Oh that's true. Steamboat of Death. Steamboat of Death, that's what 59 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.319 everyone's afraid of. Yeah, it looked like a train conductor in it, 60 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:03.879 though I did that was the thing. I think it was the outfit that 61 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:06.279 he had on. But yeah, no, it was. It was a 62 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:12.600 steamboat Willy. Obviously, you know, there was some song called Steamboat Bill 63 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.720 that that was based on that was a hit, and that went into the 64 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:18.759 public domain too. And all hell broke loose when that went into Maybe I 65 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:24.079 should make one about both of them fighting each other, Steamboat Bill and steamboat 66 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:27.519 Willie. Yeah, who's Steamboat Bill? I have no idea. Okay, 67 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:31.399 why don't you just follow me? Follow along with me today? And like 68 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:42.399 Virginia Wolf's novel Orlando went into the public domain last year, Virtual Brecks musical 69 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:46.839 play the Three Penny Opera. Have you heard of that, mister Broadway pants. 70 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:50.399 I can't say I've seen that one. I like how his voice sounds 71 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:57.920 like he's in another punishment chamber of some kind. Don't fix that? Uh 72 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:02.319 yeah, Virginia Wolf's Orlando. Who came Charlie Chaplin's Circus? I heard the 73 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.839 Circus Circus Hotel went into the public domain just because of the fifth in the 74 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:13.040 hallways. The government is no longer willing to protect it. I say that 75 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:16.079 because I was at the Circus Circus Hotel, not last night, but the 76 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:23.319 night before. Because that's one of the best steakhouses in all of Las Vegas, 77 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:27.560 is inside the Circus Circus. Really, it's called the Steakhouse. I 78 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:31.959 don't think there's a better one. Many people would say the Golden Steer is 79 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:36.079 the best steakhouse. And yes, the rat Pack used to hang out there, 80 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:41.759 but I think you can make an argument that the steakhouse in the Circus 81 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:46.480 Circus is better than that, and it's more exciting to It's like going into 82 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:50.399 a bad neighborhood and then there's like a like a speakeasy type. Yeah, 83 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:56.120 it's like somewhere in between, like the two ninety nine buffet, and like 84 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.240 the restaurants, it will kill you. Yeah, seriously, Yeah, don't 85 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.519 patron hontail. Whatever you do, don't eat the shrimp cocktail. It's made 86 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:05.800 of it's made of overgrown sea monkeys. Stay away from it. And the 87 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:10.079 people in the Circus Circus, it looks like everybody's looking like it looks like 88 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.600 everybody in there is looking for social services of some kind and and they just 89 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:16.800 happen to be in a in a casino and then you turn the corner and 90 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:21.800 bam, the steakhouse. Uh. So I recommend these steakhouse. And the 91 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:29.279 reason why it's still there and still good is because no, there's no uh 92 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:33.560 celebrity chef that's like got their eye on that facility, that building. Yeah, 93 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:35.920 oh you know what I would do if I was in this hotel. 94 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:43.079 I would, I would take out this stale musty uh thing from yesteryear, 95 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:46.879 and I would I would put a hot, new fusion restaurant. No one's 96 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:49.600 doing that. Nobody wants to be there, so they're stuck there. The 97 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:54.680 management is stuck with them, and they can't get a more, a newer, 98 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:58.800 more prestigious client, so they just keep going and it is excellent. 99 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:05.639 So then after that we went to to the to the Win Hotel to see 100 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:11.639 Steve Martin and Martin Short. Oh nice. And if you look at my 101 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:16.399 Instagram or my Facebook page, you will notice that I was hauled up on 102 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:24.319 stage as the honorary three Amigo and they did a routine and they, you 103 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:26.040 know, they teach us the three guys. Yeah, I'm one of them. 104 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:30.399 And then and they teach us the three Amigo dance. You were the 105 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:39.600 Chevy Chase probably, and then it was like a dream come true. That 106 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.960 that is actually a I would qualify that as being a dream come true. 107 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:50.200 That is absolutely true. That's amazing getting up on stage with Steve Martin, 108 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:52.879 Martin Short and being one of the three Amigos. Yeah, yeah, that 109 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.879 counts. And it was the keyboard player, mister Jeff Babco came up the 110 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.840 aisle and he was looking for volunteers. And then my wife was taking my 111 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.399 arm and just failing it. It almost broke it. And then and then 112 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.879 I got up on stage and did the thing. And then afterwards I'm leaving, 113 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:09.480 and then Jeff Babco, the keyboard player who plays along with them during 114 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.559 their show, comes up to me. He goes, I'm friends with Josh 115 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.399 Freeze. I love the Vandals. Nice because when I got up there, 116 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:18.960 people started yelling the Vandals, you know, and I'm not used to that 117 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:24.919 in a like a mainstream show, celebrity, high level, mainstream thing. 118 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.399 And I'm like, they start yelling the Vandals, and I go, okay's 119 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:33.480 Vandals. Fans in the audience very weird. And then I'm wearing a tie, 120 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:35.039 you know, in a jacket. I don't look like a punk rock 121 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.480 musician. Then Steve Martin asked me what I do for a living. I 122 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:41.240 didn't know what to say. I was like, well, I'm a TV 123 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:45.799 producer, I'm the manager of Sublime. I play bass in the Vandals. 124 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.399 But they're yelling Vandals. I go, I'm I guess I'm the guy in 125 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:50.679 the Vandals. You know, they caught me here and then he goes So 126 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.440 you play bass anyway, Just talking to Steve Martin, even for a minute, 127 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:58.519 is it is pretty amazing. But we're going to take a break now 128 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:03.080 and we come. I'm going to tell you the first time I was a 129 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:09.799 part of Steve Martin's act in nineteen seventy five, did you put the arrow 130 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:13.759 through his head? But it was it was during that era. Joe Scalante 131 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:18.559 continues after the traffic Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank 132 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:24.799 two hours of the business end of show business every Sunday here and kaeib when 133 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:30.960 we were talking, I teased this, this amazing story about well last night 134 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:37.120 I'm on stage with Steve Martin and Martin short just randomly. You got to 135 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:39.559 see that show. I don't even if they're doing it anymore. These were 136 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:46.399 two postponed shows, okay from the COVID because someone didn't follow my advice and 137 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:50.399 not get tested for COVID. And if you do get tested, don't tell 138 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:58.039 anyone. I'm not a doctor licensed to practice in California, but in Guatemala. 139 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:03.320 However, what my word is gospel anyway, So someone, so now 140 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:05.320 he had to do it in December fifteen. But it worked out good for 141 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.519 me because I won the lottery and got to be the honorary amigo. How 142 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:13.320 cool is I would have loved to have gone at least watched that, just 143 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.600 so I'd be like, I know him. A lot of people were doing 144 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:22.759 that just to be up on stage with those two legends. That's outstanding. 145 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:24.159 They really. When I thought about it later, I go, wow, 146 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:30.279 they really bestow a gift on three people every night to that like that's once 147 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:33.240 in a lifetime. But for me, it was twice in a lifetime because 148 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:35.720 in nineteen seventy five, I was a huge Steve Martin fan. I'm twelve 149 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.840 years old and watching Johnny Carson every night. My mom like doesn't know what 150 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.799 to do with me. Other parents have problems with their kids or drugs or 151 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:50.360 gender, just phouria or whatever these people have these days. My parents had 152 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:52.240 the problem with this kid wants to stay up and watch Johnny Carson, and 153 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:54.639 he begs and he negotiates, and he said, just let me watch the 154 00:11:54.679 --> 00:12:00.639 monologue and then you know, stretch it into the first guest. Anyway, 155 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:05.759 whenever Steve Martin was on I was just out of my skull with excitement. 156 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:07.720 And then I convinced my brother to take me to see him when he was 157 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:11.159 playing at the Golden Bear, which is just like, you know, five 158 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:16.240 or ten miles down pH an old nightclub in Hollywood. I'm in Huntington Beach. 159 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:24.200 Then we watch him and he's so funny, you can't you can't even 160 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.000 take it, such such an advanced style of humor. If you could read 161 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:31.559 his biography autobiography he wrote, he's like a philosophy major of some kind and 162 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:37.000 he was infusing that into his comedy and it was different than anybody would come 163 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.080 before him, and me, being the intellectual twelve year old, you know, 164 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:46.240 really appreciated that. So it's so hilarious. Then at the end, 165 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:52.120 they say you can stay and watch the second show, so we stayed and 166 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.840 we went moved down to the front. So now we're in the front tables, 167 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:58.879 it's like tables in the States. I'm just now I'm in his face. 168 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:07.279 After the second show, he's doing his happy dance and he's and he's 169 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.960 just reveling, and everybody's you know, because he killed it with some closing 170 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:15.639 joke and routine or something, and everyone going nuts, and then he's dancing 171 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.360 around, saying good bye, good bye, bay bye, starts climbing the 172 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:22.200 staircase that goes up to the backstage in that in that club, and he's 173 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:28.000 doing these dances, you know, like snoopy dancing, and then all of 174 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.399 a sudden he sees me and he locks eyes on me, and he goes, 175 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:35.279 wait a second, wait a second, wait, stop stop stop, 176 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:41.399 are you Joe Escalante? No, He says, what the heck, and 177 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.399 he walks back down the steps and he comes up to me and goes, 178 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.519 how old are you? And I go, I'm twelve, twelve years old. 179 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.399 There's been a twelve year old here the whole time. Oh my lord, 180 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:54.600 I had no idea. Okay, I got a joke for you twelve 181 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:58.960 year olds. Twelve years man. Yeah, all right, there's these two 182 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:09.200 lesbians and into a bar, right nineteen seventy five. Oh that's outstanding. 183 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:11.440 Yeah. So that was it. And then he went crazy and even more 184 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:13.799 uproar, and then he goes on and then I tell that story every day 185 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.879 of my life, and tell today, and I'll continue telling it. So 186 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.679 it turns out as I'm walking off the stage, the keyboard players say Hey, 187 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.039 I'm Jeff. I know Joss Freese, the drummer of your band Love 188 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.960 the Vandals. And then so I sent him an email afterwards it and then 189 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:35.519 I told him that story. And my dream, my real dream in life, 190 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.519 is for Steve Martin to hear that story that that young boy that was 191 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:46.000 you and grew up to have one of the lowest rated radio shows in the 192 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:50.279 entire history of the medium, and you know, all because of him. 193 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.279 Yeah, and no offense in Martin short. I'm a huge I could tell 194 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.799 them Martin short stories of how much I worshiped SETV. That's for another day. 195 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:03.600 But ayway, that was my Las Vegas trip. I encourage Las Vegas, 196 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:05.440 like, you know, five hours away. It's kind of like as 197 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:09.320 La gets to be five hours away from Orange County with the traffic. Yeah, 198 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:13.440 sometimes it's just easier to go to Las Vegas to see something that's no 199 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:18.639 joke. That's no joke. Okay, let's get to the movies. You 200 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:22.960 saw a movie this week, didn't you. I saw it Godzilla. That's 201 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:26.240 a movie, al right. That was a great movie they had. It 202 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:31.240 was a terrifying Godzilla first off, and second that actors were actually good. 203 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:35.399 The actual human actors. They paid attention to how they were acting. It 204 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:39.120 was like because it was in Japanese. Yeah, and you didn't have to 205 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:45.320 worry about dubbing. It was just like seeing a you know, a Kirosawa 206 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:50.240 film or Uzu film in on the Criterion channel or something. It was just 207 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.559 a serious you could take it more seriously. Yeah, it was really good. 208 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:58.080 I really enjoyed it, and I'm definitely gonna go see it again whenever 209 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:03.320 I have the chance. I was very pleased with this one. Yeah, 210 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:06.120 I'm going with you on a hundred percent. Mister Broadway Pants is coming up 211 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:07.960 in the next segment. But mister Bridy Pants, did you see Godzilla? 212 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:11.600 No, No, I've missed that. I missed that one. What's wrong 213 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:15.120 with his microphone is that? How it has to be sound like? Why 214 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.559 does he sound like that? Because he's from Broadway? Could be not sure. 215 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.639 I could turn him up a little bit. Maybe that helps. I 216 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:29.320 don't know. Okay, I personally like that trapped in a dungeon sound Okay? 217 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:30.919 All right, let's go through the We only have a couple of minutes, 218 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.320 but we're gonna start going through the top ten of the box office this 219 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:36.120 week. I'll just rattle it off, and then we'll take a break and 220 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:37.879 we'll talk about what a little bit more of the movies that we saw, 221 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:44.039 and then we're gonna get into the Broadway portion of our show. I like 222 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:48.120 how you saying that last part. I have to number one, number one 223 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:52.200 movie in the country, Wonka, number two, Hunger Games, number three, 224 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.639 Bad the Boy and the Heron which is a studio, the best one, 225 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:02.960 the last one, Godzilla minus one, Number four, Trolls Band Together, 226 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:07.759 number five, number six, Wish, number seven, Christmas with the 227 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:12.519 Chosen does Christian film? The usually do well? Napoleon is he Heathen film? 228 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.799 It's doing pretty good too. Actually, Renaissance, a film by Beyonce, 229 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:21.400 must viewing for anybody that works on this show. And number ten Poor 230 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:26.960 Things from search Light Films. When we come back, we will discuss the 231 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.160 the movie that I saw, and then we'll get into a little more Broadway 232 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:34.160 with mister Broadway pants. And this is the part of the show where usually 233 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.200 you play some music. Then I just wry know, I have to wait 234 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:42.079 about five seconds, give me a moment a second. Four and three and 235 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:49.720 two and one Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood back after this Joe Escalante Live from 236 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:56.240 Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank. Uh, two hours of the 237 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:02.119 Business, End of show Business, every Sunday here on KiB eleven fifty on 238 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:06.400 your AM dial. The movie list. We just went over the weekend box 239 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:15.000 office. The Wonka is the winner, demolishing everybody. It's not even a 240 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.480 second place, really, thirty nine million dollars and the second place was The 241 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:26.720 Hunger Games, directed by the Great Francis Lewis, only had five zero point 242 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:33.640 eight million, so thirty nine million. Everybody was seeing Wonka and I wanted 243 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:38.279 to see Well, I wanted to see Wonka, so I went to see 244 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:45.960 Wonka, and there was another movie with I can't find it out it didn't 245 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:48.920 do Oh, Eileen was Eileen? I wanted to disease but I ended up 246 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:53.559 not seeing it. And then so Wonka. What did you think of it? 247 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:59.799 Joe? Oh, thanks for asking. Uh, let me ask around 248 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:07.920 the panel here, Sam, Yes, did I give a thumbs up or 249 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.440 a thumbs down to the new version of Wanka? I think you gave it 250 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:15.680 a thumbs up. I'm gonna go with thumbs up. Mister Broadway Pants. 251 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.559 Do you think I gave it a thumbs up or a thumbs down. I'm 252 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:22.039 thinking of thumbs down right, because he knows how it feels about all the 253 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.799 musicals, mister Broadway pants. It never stops going to well, let me 254 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:32.680 tell you, let me surprise one of you. I thought the Wonka Movie 255 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:37.200 was a beautiful film, and it just doesn't care that there were two Wonka 256 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:42.079 movies already. It's you know, one of those walk of films is really 257 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:47.720 stupid. One of them is perhaps the greatest family film ever made. And 258 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:51.000 then this one's a musical. Man, there's a lot of room for cringey 259 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:57.480 disasters here. But the songs were fantastic. They were just like, just 260 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:06.400 very fitting for a prequel to the Gene Wilder musical. Let's take the musical 261 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:11.000 that the other one is a Johnny Depp. Let's put that one away, 262 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:15.279 the Johnny Depp Wonka one. Let's put that one to the side. Let's 263 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:22.960 bury it too much style, not enough substance. And that's from a guy 264 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.640 who has never seen it. Okay, it was the c g I Opa 265 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:32.480 Lumpas for me, I just couldn't. Yeah, I just didn't. I 266 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:37.279 don't anyway. I looked at it and I'm just like, does that really 267 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:41.960 needed to happen? And then then after he ruined Dumbo, I was like, 268 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:45.880 well, if he can't even do Dumbo, right, how is he 269 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:49.920 gonna do Willie Wonka? So I was never looked back and then I then 270 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:55.079 then this one came. I. Oh, you know Timothy chacoal Lot or 271 00:20:55.200 --> 00:21:00.000 Chala may or whatever his name is. He, uh, he's good enough. 272 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:04.759 Timothy sports Shelley. Yeah, that's a good one. Timothy sports Shelley. 273 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:11.359 Let's just go with that. So Timothy sports Shelley. He you know, 274 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:15.359 I like him in some things I could care less than others. Is 275 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:19.079 something wrong with him? He's a flavor of the month. My wife is 276 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:25.720 all into it, you know I would, so I'm willing to give him 277 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:30.960 a shot. And I watched it and loved it. Everyone in this involved 278 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:37.240 in this movie should be very proud, except for Hugh Grant, who was 279 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:38.640 He was great in the film, but he couldn't just leave it. He 280 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:41.720 was actually in the film. Okay, I thought you're just throwing him in 281 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.839 there. I mean, he was great in the film, but then he 282 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:49.200 you know, he he just squirted his own stinky chocolate all over the film 283 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:52.720 before it was even released, complaining about being an oopa loopa and all the 284 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.720 CGI stuff and how they made and he thought they made him look stupid. 285 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.200 Shame on him. The headline from this the release of this film should have 286 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:07.720 been convicted John spoils otherwise successful launch of assumed to be classic film, because 287 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:15.000 I just thought, since he's complaining about this great movie and he's lucky to 288 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:19.240 be in it, I'd bring up his shadowy past. Let's go around the 289 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:25.880 panel here. Do you remember his shadowy past? Grant? Yes, I 290 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:30.160 do, do you It wasn't so shadowy, do you. Yeah, we 291 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:33.319 can get to that. It wasn't really you know, but it was. 292 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:37.720 I mean, it was out in the open, mister Broadway pants. Did 293 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:41.920 you do you know about Hugh Grant? Since I have heard a few stories, 294 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:45.839 yes, about his engagement with some women. Yeah, a woman named 295 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:53.279 Divine Brown. He engaged in public sex with a prostitute. And you know, 296 00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:56.319 he had to pay a thousand dollars fine and he had to go on 297 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:02.400 an AIDS education program, which I think is an insult to assume that that 298 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:06.799 Divine Brown had AIDS or her co workers. Yeah, a little bit of 299 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:11.799 horror shaming. I don't know, did I just horses shame by saying that, 300 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:14.319 by coining the phrase horse shaming? No, no, not okay, 301 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:22.680 so uh and then she had to go to jail for like eighteen months, 302 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.519 you know, and she was she was she wasn't bad looking, and she 303 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:27.759 she you know, things didn't turn out so great for her, but they 304 00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:32.920 weren't going to turn out probably that great anyway, if that's how she ended 305 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:34.759 up. And then ah, anyway, anyway. The only reason I'm bringing 306 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:38.319 it up because I'm just mad he had a tantrum about his being a part 307 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:41.000 of this this cool movie. It's a cool movie. Songs are good. 308 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:48.640 It's it's kind of like a Wes Anderson meets Harry Potter meets the original Willie 309 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:53.680 Wank in the Chocolate Factory film, and it's you know, like you don't 310 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:59.920 necessarily think of Gene Wilder as a you know, like a musical a lead 311 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.680 man in a musical, but he pulled it off in that movie and it 312 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:08.319 defined him and Timothy challummey as soon as he started singing, You're like, 313 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:14.599 you know, it's very reminiscent of Gene Wilder because it's not you know, 314 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:19.400 like it's not like perfect, like, oh, I became I started as 315 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:22.279 a singer and I won American Idol and now I'm an actor. So he's 316 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:26.359 an actor. You can sing. It's charming, he fits the part. 317 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.480 Some people say he was miscast, but those are people that just don't like 318 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.400 it anyway. Some people are bitter. I could have been bitter about this. 319 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:37.400 Willie Wanka is a sacred film to me. But I would see this 320 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:44.440 again and again. Is it really fun? And the cast Mark Lucas from 321 00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:52.279 the Great British actor that was in Great Britain, Little Britain, he was 322 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:56.480 in it. And Olivia Coleman. I don't know if you if you familiar 323 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:04.079 with her oscars studied career and and Hugh Grant and everybody was good. Anyway. 324 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:10.400 I can recommend Wanka and you can recommend, and we can both recommend 325 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:17.440 minus one. And I honestly want to see more films with Timothy sports Chalet 326 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:22.359 and I would love to see him work alongside Ham and Cheese bandersnatch. Ham 327 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:27.200 and Cheese bandersnatch. Oh is that Benedict cumber Patch. That's what I said, 328 00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:32.039 because because it sounded like you said, Ham and Cheese bandersnatch. Same 329 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:36.359 thing. Okay, all right, well we don't have a lot of time. 330 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:41.119 We only have one minute left for mister Broadway pants, mister Robbie pants. 331 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:44.799 Did you go see some plays? I did. I saw some plays. 332 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:47.480 I saw some musicals out in New York City, and I had a 333 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:49.480 wonderful time doing it. All right, Well, thank you for stopping by, 334 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:57.039 and the Jenny out front will validate, yes' validate your partnerfect. Thank 335 00:25:57.079 --> 00:26:02.160 you so much, and we'll have you back again. Great. I'll have 336 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:06.599 a lot more to report next time. Okay, good, okay, let's 337 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:11.160 take a break. We'll check the traffic. And Joe Scalante live from Hollywood, 338 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:18.640 coming at you, all right, Joe Scalante live from Hollywood's by Hollywood. 339 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:26.279 You need burd Bank And uh, of course Ponio, the the Great 340 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:30.319 Fishy in the Sea from the Ghibli Studio. Uh. The hair On the 341 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:34.400 Boy and the hair On is out in theaters right now, the last Studio 342 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:38.160 Ghibli movie. I guess we're ever going to see. It's like Tarantino, 343 00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:41.359 you know, shop after ten or something. I don't know how many do 344 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:48.759 they did? That's it's it feels bittersweet, it does. This one has 345 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:51.640 Florence pew in it. Oh cool, And I know how big of a 346 00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:56.519 fan of Florence Pew you are. I'm the pewiest they caused the Pewbies. 347 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:06.160 They call you the pubes. Well you would go there, but no, 348 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:11.920 run a tight ship here, Okay, Studio Ghibli, So I haven't seen 349 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:17.160 that one. I'll probably see it this week. No, let's go back 350 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:22.680 to the movies for a second. So we were talking about Wonka and Wanka 351 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:29.079 is a musical we've brought in. Mister Broadway pants. We pulled them back. 352 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:33.799 We didn't kick him out, mister Broadway Pants. How are you? 353 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:36.480 I'm good, Joe, thank you, thank you for having me here. 354 00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:42.720 He sounds like Enoch from the Land of the Lost, like the high level 355 00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:45.599 slee stack. Is that what kind of a station we got? Now? 356 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:49.480 Yes, yes, okay, this is the Land of the Lost. Evidently 357 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:55.440 we were just talking over the break that I'm Everybody's Christmas party is KLA C 358 00:27:55.680 --> 00:28:00.480 KF I where's the KiB Christmas Party? And since I'm the only live uh, 359 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:02.799 you're very lucky. You're driving around und and you're here, You're hearing 360 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:07.480 the only live radio personality in this station. And I don't have a Christmas 361 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:11.640 party. I don't know, so Sam, I think you should this. 362 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.599 Here's the Christmas party. I'm telling you. We are festive right now. 363 00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:18.160 Sure, but there should be some We're gonna do some live events. I've 364 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.039 got a ham cooking in the back. This is perfect. Yeah, I'm 365 00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:27.160 not as music by it. I need I need a party, But I 366 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:33.759 brought a ham. Where's my where's all my radio listeners that you know that 367 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:36.880 are going to punish me at a party? Like? I really like? 368 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:37.759 If I had a party, i'd go to it. I probably hate every 369 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.880 second of it. But since I don't have one, I'm upset about it. 370 00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:48.480 Okay, let's go with mister Broadway pants. You you really did go 371 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:55.720 to New York for ten days to to do an in depth Broadway musical and 372 00:28:55.880 --> 00:28:59.960 other kinds of plays search for us? What? What did you find? 373 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:04.039 What are the highlights the low lights? What's coming to Los Angeles? Yeah? 374 00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:07.319 Yeah, so I was there for ten nights. I saw all the 375 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:11.640 shows that are brand new on Broadway. The biggest ticket item that I would 376 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:15.960 say I saw was Merrily We Roll Along the revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical That 377 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:19.160 Sounds legit because some of the ones you talk about sound like the worst evening 378 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:23.359 one could spend sitting in a chair. What's this Merrily We Roll Along about? 379 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:29.079 So it stars Daniel Radcliffe, Lindsay Mendez and Jonathan Groth. Are you 380 00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:33.359 talking about Harry Potter? That's the one and the same. Yeah, weird 381 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:37.680 out the naked or he was naked on Broadway originally? Yes, Angels in 382 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:40.559 America, right, Angels in America? Okay, So Merrily We Roll Along. 383 00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:48.039 It's a like a nineteen thirties show tune filled extravaganza. Definitely not. 384 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.400 No, it takes place and what was present day when it originally aired on 385 00:29:52.480 --> 00:30:00.200 Broadway in early nineteen eighties, and it goes back in time to see how 386 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:06.279 they originated their relationship with those three characters. So it starts present day and 387 00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:11.960 then you see how it happens and it's great and something. Groth has a 388 00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.279 great performance. I was actually sitting in the front row and I could just 389 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:19.920 have him spitting really in my old fashioned cocktail drink. So yeah, that 390 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.359 was a really nice That's good because there's so much bourbon in an old fashioned 391 00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:27.519 Yeah, it's good. It's gonna kill it. It doesn't matter. That's 392 00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:32.680 what Steve Martin said the other night. Laughter is the is the best way 393 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.119 to spread COVID and AIDS and stuff like that. Not aids. He didn't 394 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:41.559 say that. He said he grants it. Always wear a condom while laughing. 395 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.279 Folks, Yeah, maybe, okay, So Merrily We Roll Along? 396 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:48.039 Okay, so that's that's a big deal. Good for you. How much 397 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:52.160 is a ticket like that cost? So that one is the highest cost of 398 00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.640 all the shows, it'll run you about two to three hundred dollars. They 399 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.720 just extended it through July, so there are some lower priced tickets available. 400 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.880 Plus there's a rush and a lottery, as there are for many shushes, 401 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:06.839 like when the student's going and they get it's when Getty Lee comes out and 402 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:10.680 okay, yeah that's cool. Hey, look I do all the comedy on 403 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:14.839 the show. All right, excuse me, I'm sorry. What about when 404 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.559 would like a place like that? Like how does this work? Like Merrily 405 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:21.480 We Roll Along? It's like a big on Broadway. When can someone in 406 00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:26.640 Los Angeles see it at one of these theaters in Hollywood or wherever? So, 407 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:29.640 yeah, it usually takes about one to two years, depending on how 408 00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:32.519 it does on Broadway, or if it's a limited run. So this one 409 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:34.799 is actually a limited run, but they could always, you know, change 410 00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:38.440 it and decide that they want to take it on tour as they did are 411 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:42.960 doing with Parade Parade, And is Parade new or is that one of these 412 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:48.599 old Parade was a revival. It originally came out about twenty years ago and 413 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.559 it came back this year with Ben Platt as the lead of Dear Evan Hanson, 414 00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:57.920 Fame of What Fame Dear Evan Hanson, the twenty seventeen Tony winner for 415 00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:01.920 Best Musical. He's the kid Hansen all grown up, cut the hair and 416 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:07.200 everything. Yeah, all right, if you say so, parade? And 417 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.440 then what else you got? And what else did you see? That was 418 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:15.640 the cut your eye? What was you? What is the sleeper hit that 419 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.599 you saw? I would say that that was Buenavista's Social Club. Oh that's 420 00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:22.440 a good one, now you speaking my land Atlantic Stage or at yeah, 421 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:27.119 Atlantic Theater, the Atlantic Theater. Yeah, it was off Broadway and is 422 00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:34.079 a story about the making of the record in nineteen ninety six and their backstory 423 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:37.599 in nineteen fifty six when Fidel Castro was coming into power and so It tells 424 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:43.359 that story that reminds me of the Musical that Didn't go, which was the 425 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:50.480 making of the Vandal's Piece through Vandalism EP, when Ronald Reagan was coming into 426 00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:53.240 power. That would have been a heck of a musical. It didn't make 427 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:59.279 it. That's a shame. It was less popular than that than Springtime for 428 00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:04.640 Hitler. Well, you know, Merrily We Roll Along was initially a flop, 429 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.440 and now it's thriving on Broadway, so it could be your time. 430 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:10.440 They can revive flops. Yeah, well, I mean it's a Stephen Sondheim, 431 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:15.559 so it has that name attached to it, a provenance we know. 432 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:20.400 Is Stephen Sondheim still alive? No, unfortunately, he passed away two years 433 00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:23.759 ago. He's very much alive on Broadway and in the theater. He's got 434 00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:29.039 Sweeney Todd. He's got Sweeney Todd going. The movie Here we Are is 435 00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:32.559 playing at the Shed, and that is off Broadway, and a company ran 436 00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:38.720 on Broadway two years ago and now it's on a national tour. You're mister 437 00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:44.720 off Broadway as mister off Broadway pants. Yeah. Well, see the thing 438 00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:47.079 is that I had seen all the shows on Broadway that I had to dive 439 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:52.119 deeper to find the things that are coming to Broadway. It's like the minor 440 00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:57.119 leagues of theater. And we're paying for all of this. Not a dime 441 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.480 he's doing. He's digging into his own pocket for the Joe Scalante Live from 442 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:07.759 Hollywood. It's on. You know, IOU's okay when when you come back, 443 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:10.519 we're going to talk more about what happened in Broadway and when he got 444 00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:15.920 pushed onto the subway tracks and jumped right back off. Right here on Joe 445 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.880 A. Scalante Live from Hollywood, and he's going to tell you how you 446 00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:23.239 can see some of these some what are the best plays and musicals to see 447 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:28.960 in Southern California. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean 448 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:32.559 Burbank, across the street from a Wiener Snitzel that serves beer. And this 449 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:35.960 is two hours of the business, end of show business. This is our 450 00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:38.760 number two tonight. Sometimes we don't make it this far, but here we 451 00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:45.199 are. It is live December seventeenth. It is six oh six in the 452 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:51.840 city, joined here by Sam the Engineer of the Stars, and mister Broadway 453 00:34:51.880 --> 00:35:00.119 Pants, the live theater expert that we send all over the country to at 454 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:06.920 the updates on the live theater world. Because I'm mister movie I'm taking a 455 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.800 photo right now. Yeah, that's me on the mic. And then uh, 456 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:15.360 people coming in all the time taking photos. I mean, I get 457 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:20.920 used to it. Anyways, you get the paparazzi chasing you, it happens. 458 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:28.039 Oh never. Actually, I think I'm you know, I'm happy with 459 00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:30.800 the level of fame. I have a radio host, you know, no 460 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:34.760 problems. Every once in a while someone goes, hey, I like the 461 00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:38.280 vandals, or I like your radio show. I like your shoes. I 462 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:42.199 like your shoes. I like you, I like your shoes. As code 463 00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.239 in the backstage for my band and I go to the manager, hey don't 464 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.079 you have shoes like that? And that's his cue when I walk away to 465 00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.039 get that person out of the dressing room. But it doesn't have to be 466 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:55.159 me. It's not like, hey, manager, can you kick this guy 467 00:35:55.199 --> 00:36:00.719 out? He's a punisher. No, you go coat. You always have 468 00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:06.480 to have coats show business. Okay, mister broadway pants. What if I 469 00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:10.360 wanted to thanks for your report on New York. We might get back into 470 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:14.039 some of your New York stuff. What if I wanted to see some theater 471 00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:16.440 in Los Angeles? What would I do? Where would I go? Well, 472 00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:20.559 it is Christmas time, so there are a few different Christmas shows that 473 00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:24.440 are playing in the upcoming weeks. One would be How the Grinch Stool Christmas 474 00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:28.760 Musical. That's a musical, it is, They got songs and everything. 475 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:30.840 It's at the Segerstrom Center and Coast to Mesa. That's a very nice theater, 476 00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:36.119 it is. It's wonderful. And then we also have a Christmas story 477 00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:39.360 that's playing at the almonds En. Well that's for hipsters only, though, 478 00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:44.360 isn't it hipster's only for the most part. Yeah, you got to you 479 00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:46.840 gotta have the glasses, you gotta be really cool. Peter Billingsley in it. 480 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.639 Greig at Unfortunately I don't think they were cast in this production, but 481 00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.880 he could be in the audience. Okay, never know. It's basically the 482 00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:59.440 same story. It is the same story. I haven't seen it. I'm 483 00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:01.920 gonna see it Tuesday. Oh on Tuesday. See he doesn't mess around. 484 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:06.719 Wow, Okay, where's it at at the Oh? Yeah, the Omnis 485 00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:08.440 that's a nice place too. It's no, it's no secret stroom, but 486 00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:12.039 you know it's it's it's one of my favorite theaters. Yeah, it's a 487 00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:15.400 great, great venue. And is it better than Dorothy Chandler or is that 488 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:19.039 more for like opera? You know, I haven't even been to the Dorothy 489 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:22.159 Chandler. I'm not cool enough. They don't let me in there. They 490 00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:25.679 let me in and they don't have a metal detector and that's the way I 491 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:31.159 like it. They do have one at the Seagrums. I don't like it 492 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:35.760 goes. I got metal on me most of the time. Okay, it's 493 00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:38.639 a nuisance, Yeah it is. Okay. So what if you wanted to 494 00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:44.639 see, like what's like coming up with the Pantages, these like big productions 495 00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:47.639 that they have there. That's where people Is that the premiere Uh yeah, 496 00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:53.079 I mean Hollywood Pantages. That's where all the big Broadway shows come as their 497 00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:58.800 first stop on national tour. So the Pantagious season is actually starting up very 498 00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:02.960 soon and Jay is the first in its lineup that's a Michael Jackson musical. 499 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.679 So he's been rehabilitated to the point where he can have his own music musical 500 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.480 and and people will take their families to this. This is correct, yes, 501 00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:16.880 but it focuses more on pre nineteen ninety five. So it's him go 502 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:22.760 about to go on his Big World tour. It's framed as the MTV interview 503 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:24.760 that he did, and then it goes back in time to his youth and 504 00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:31.920 how he grew as an entertainer. That's interesting. Do you know, guys 505 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:36.400 know so many Michael Jackson jokes. I don't think. I don't think I'll 506 00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:39.519 tell them because that's a new Joe. I don't tell Michael Jackson, Joeason. 507 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:45.599 It's very very grown up, mature of you. Yeah, okay, 508 00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:49.079 so there's a Michael Jackson plague, MJ. So that's the hot ticket for 509 00:38:49.159 --> 00:38:51.280 it now. So that was already on New York. Yes, that was 510 00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:53.400 in New York, assasce do well. It did great. It's actually still 511 00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:58.639 playing in New York on Broadway. Actually, it's funny that when I did 512 00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:01.159 see it on Broadway, Madonna was sitting three rows in front of me. 513 00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:05.639 That can happen, huh in New York because they can't go have their own 514 00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:07.039 private thing, so Madonna's gonna have to sit in with the pubble. She's 515 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:12.679 in the house seats. Hmmm. That's kind of fun, very cool how 516 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:17.599 she looked you know she looked Okay, I'll say I got a close up 517 00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:21.840 view of her hands that weren't you know, Oh the hands you give it 518 00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:23.000 to, hands, give it away again. Yeah, she just walked right 519 00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:28.519 by me down the aisle and tons of rings and jewelry and things. That's 520 00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:31.719 kind of exciting. That's a very exciting, uh Broadway experience. You never 521 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:35.079 know who you're going to see when you go to his show in New York. 522 00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:38.840 Who else did you see? Any other exciting people? I saw Lindsay 523 00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:44.000 Lohan. That's really good. That's a good one. That's a good one. 524 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:45.920 Michael Jackson can have a musical. I think Lindsay Lohan can have a 525 00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:51.239 musical. The most recent one I saw was Zoe Chow. I saw her 526 00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:53.000 in the play called Appropriate. She was sitting two rows in front of me. 527 00:39:53.559 --> 00:40:00.440 She's in Party Down and the After Party to two good comedies on streaming 528 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:05.079 sites. According to you, who did I see? I saw? What 529 00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:12.559 is the woman with the curly hair that was married to the guy and the 530 00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:21.480 top gun who's married to the guy in Topcunt Katie Holmes, the curly hair 531 00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.079 Nicole Nicole kidd O, that one from AMC Fame, Yes, yeah, 532 00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:27.119 the AMC. Well, I don't go to the MC, so you have 533 00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.320 to watch that. Does everybody cheer whenever that happens at the theater you go 534 00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:35.639 to? There isn't much cheering now. I think it's just more every single 535 00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:38.440 time. I just went to see Godzilla and that there with Nicole Kidman shows 536 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:42.880 up and everybody starts cheering Nicole Kidman as soon as it's like the movie The 537 00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:45.119 Room at this point, Oh dude, don't get don't even get me started 538 00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:47.840 on the Room. I've got pictures with me and Tommy Wisso and everything like 539 00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:52.159 that. You do now, yeah, it's like the Room. It comes 540 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:54.920 up, they laugh at they're laughing at her. I think kind of they, 541 00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:58.360 you know, because it's it's well, they told the joke on the 542 00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:00.480 Oscars. That was it was remember that jokes in the Oscars. Remember it 543 00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:05.440 feels better in a place like this. They have that a line from the 544 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:07.760 Room, but no, it's a line from the from the They have AMC 545 00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:12.679 backpacks that has the speech, the all text of what she says, all 546 00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:15.800 text. Yeah you can okay, Yeah, they're leaning into it. Yeah, 547 00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:17.280 I like that. They don't have anything that good at the cinemak where 548 00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:23.199 I go. But the they cinema has they don't have that. They don't 549 00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:28.239 have a Nicole, they have a they don't have. I mean, I'm 550 00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:30.079 kind of jealous. You have a Nicole Kidman. What time was I was 551 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:35.519 in New York and I saw Nicole Kidman at lunch, sitting next to me 552 00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:38.840 at the in Italy. You go to Italy, I've been there a few 553 00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:42.719 times. Yeah, probably with my wife, No, but she did recommend 554 00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.119 it. Yeah, I was in Italy, Nicole Kidman's sitting at the table 555 00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:52.239 next to us. And then later I went to see Cabaret with Ali coming. 556 00:41:53.599 --> 00:42:00.079 Yeah, and the women forgot her name. Uh, the one that 557 00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:07.679 you know that it was famous for doing it and know that one that was 558 00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:10.719 a long time ago. And Nicole kid Move was in the theater with us. 559 00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:15.400 So lunch and at the theater. So yeah, you feature you go 560 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:20.599 to these things you're gonna. If you're gonna, you can see some celebrities, 561 00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:25.800 which is kind of fun. Okay, any other any other Broadway things 562 00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:30.280 that we've forgotten before we take our break and some people are like, oh 563 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:34.079 my gosh, I don't have a traffic app and I need to hear the 564 00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:37.639 traffic from iHeartMedia, So they're really waiting for me to get to get into 565 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:39.960 this traffic. But before that, what do you got? I would say, 566 00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:43.920 if you're looking for a comedy on Broadway, spam a Lot is a 567 00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:47.639 very fun time. It's Monty Python. You're speaking the language of Sam and 568 00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:51.679 Joe here, right. Oh yeah, spam a Lot. So that's good. 569 00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:55.159 That lives up to the the to the the standards of Monty Python humor. 570 00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:58.800 Yes, yes it does. It's very funny. What's the plot of 571 00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:02.840 spam Alot? That's the Knights on the quest to seek the Holy Grail. 572 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.119 It's and they got the coconuts and everything, the coconuts to make the noise. 573 00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:10.320 Right, that's got to be fun. Do you think that will come 574 00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.039 to Los Angeles or better yet, do you think that will come to Seal 575 00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:17.719 Beach? Yeah, it'll It'll come to Main Street in twenty maybe the new 576 00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:22.679 Bay Theater. Yeah, the Bay Theater just live action, love it. 577 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.280 I mean you could put live theater in the Bay Theater. Right, Why 578 00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:29.960 don't you be become a promoter? There you go, Now, she takes 579 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:31.960 some money off this mister promoter pants, this hobby of you of yours? 580 00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:37.079 Yeah, mister promoter pants. Okay, what about the Fat Mike musical? 581 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:43.480 I let you hear some of those. That's the no effects singer songwriter wrote 582 00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:47.719 a musical and it's really good. I would love to see it or hear 583 00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:51.400 some more music send it my way. But you saw it. It was 584 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:52.679 I mean you listened to I listened to. Yeah, you played me a 585 00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:55.639 song. Yeah, it's good stuff. It's better than Rent. Oh, 586 00:43:55.679 --> 00:44:00.280 I wouldn't say that. I'm a bit worse than Larson fan. So if 587 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:05.039 Jonathan Larson had anything to do with the play Rent, shame on him. 588 00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:07.800 He is the only one to deal with the musical event. Isn't like a 589 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:12.880 documentary about his uh tic tick boom, Yeah, tick tick boom. Don't 590 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:16.119 get me started on tick tick boom fantastic. That's a pick tick tick disaster. 591 00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:22.960 Like, the only thing worse than than the musical Rent is is going 592 00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:28.880 through the pain of watching this guy uh you know, concoct it or whatever. 593 00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:35.039 The songs are so uh substandard, they're They're just like the songs that 594 00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:39.159 like your your nine year old wrote uh in a for an English class project, 595 00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:46.159 and somehow he flubbed his way all the way to Broadway and then and 596 00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:50.280 which is a shame, and it's an insult to like Soundheimen and and uh 597 00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:55.519 and uh, who's that guy? Uh that wrote Jesus Christ Superstar Harriet Beecher 598 00:44:55.559 --> 00:45:07.199 Stowe, Jonathan Lord Taylor. What's his name? You you were referring to 599 00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:09.880 the fan of the opera creator. Yeah, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Andrew Lloyd 600 00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:15.039 Webber. I thought it was somebody with three names, that that guy's good, 601 00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:21.039 that guy writes good songs. Maybe you saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor 602 00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:25.960 dream Coat and yes, and it was many different colors that that is those 603 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:31.119 are good songs. Rent, Really, I mean, I'm watched I didn't. 604 00:45:31.159 --> 00:45:35.039 I never went to see it. Someone threw a cassette and our tour 605 00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:38.239 bus once and we just started listening to it. And after like three songs, 606 00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:43.639 I was about to just like take one of the drumsticks from our drummer 607 00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:45.440 and just shove it into my brain and take a chance on you know what's 608 00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:52.679 on the other side. It was that painful. But you like it? 609 00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:54.880 I guess, Uh what do you like it? Why do you like it? 610 00:45:54.920 --> 00:46:00.599 Just give me one sentence? I think the music is really and I've 611 00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:05.280 just found myself drawn to enjoying it. I'm happy for you. Yeah, 612 00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:07.079 I'm concerned for you, but I'm happy for you. But it doesn't it 613 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:12.239 doesn't. It doesn't compare with Andrew Lloyd Webber. It doesn't have the depth. 614 00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:15.960 It's it's more kind of like poppy, cheesy, just fun. It's 615 00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:17.519 like, I wrote this song in fifteen minutes, but it's also about AIDS, 616 00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:22.440 so it's fun with the well aid It's gonna be fun. So I 617 00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:31.159 hear yeah, starts out great, let's go to break all right, this 618 00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:35.679 is you're listening to a show. I'm not even saying my name after that 619 00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:37.719 because it's better not to say your name because then people have to look up 620 00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:42.639 who is the guy that said does horrible things? So this is a Phil 621 00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:46.880 Henry show on k E. I b AM eleven fifty Joe Scolante live from 622 00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:51.719 Hollywood, if by Hollywood you mean Bourbhand. We are here with mister Broadway 623 00:46:51.760 --> 00:47:00.320 Pants talking Broadway and other things, and Sam the engineer running the spaceship Mister 624 00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:02.000 Broadway Pants. I hope you'll indulge me while I get back to the regular 625 00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:07.719 topics that we talk about here on the Live from Hollywood program. Okay, 626 00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:14.840 and since you're I ride home, I'm very happy that you have agreed to 627 00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:20.039 that. Sam Terrence Howard, what do you think of him? Empire star? 628 00:47:21.559 --> 00:47:25.000 He's talents a actor. He had a lot of hype coming out real 629 00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:28.559 fast and real you know, hard and fast early in his career, and 630 00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:31.599 then it kind of faded and then he got on He was like on like 631 00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:36.960 one of those C s I type shows for a while, and then but 632 00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:44.599 then he got on Empire and then Empire Empire shot straight up and then it 633 00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:47.880 kind of fizzled. But he's now suing. This is a very interesting legal 634 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:54.800 case. He is suing his agency, c AA, the ones that made 635 00:47:54.840 --> 00:48:07.800 the deal, because there were some profits the the the show did well for 636 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:14.639 a while, so he's arguing that he should have got profits and he was 637 00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:21.800 cheated out of these profits because CIA would have got him a sweet ass deal 638 00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:28.119 if not for the fact that he was black. So this is a show 639 00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:35.119 with an all black cast, and because he's black, he did not get 640 00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:38.239 a good deal. Is there like some minor character that got all the profits? 641 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:44.159 And do we call that a sad sweet ass deal? It was a 642 00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:45.719 sad ass deal is what he got. He's suing because he got a sad 643 00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:52.480 ass deal or a spicy deal. What's the opposite of sweet sour? He 644 00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:55.760 got a sour deal. Yeah, he got a soury deal. Wasn't a 645 00:48:55.800 --> 00:49:02.119 savory He's very salty. So I mean it's interesting because he's not with CIA 646 00:49:02.199 --> 00:49:07.119 anymore. And the show, like I said, it got very high ratings, 647 00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:10.679 is up to like maybe thirteen million people or more, and then it 648 00:49:12.119 --> 00:49:15.920 then towards the end it went back down to like three million people. So 649 00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.039 it did have a period where it was doing very well, but then it 650 00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:24.639 wasn't doing well and then and then it had the Jesse Smollett situation where the 651 00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:29.960 guy pretended that he was a victim of racism. A lot of racism involved 652 00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:36.360 in this show, and so he's saying it was racism to not give him 653 00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:39.639 the sweet ass deal that would have given him a bigger paycheck because he would 654 00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:47.119 have these profits that he'd be swimming in right now, Sam, what do 655 00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:52.960 you think this should this should we should actors be suing their old agencies for 656 00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:57.599 not getting them the best deal that they could have got them in hindsight? 657 00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:01.039 Does that sound like a world you want to live in. Sure, he's 658 00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:06.559 you know, he never plays along. Well, let me tell you, 659 00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:10.360 since i'm the lawyer here to in the Hollywood and mister Hollywood pants, that's 660 00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:13.840 not a world you want to live in. So if you're an actor and 661 00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:16.599 you get an agent, and the agent now has to worry about you suing 662 00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:20.039 them if you don't, I mean, the pressures on anyway you get. 663 00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:22.360 If you don't get a good deal, they're going to get rid of you, 664 00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:25.840 and now they're going to sue you later and then they're going to call 665 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:30.679 you a racist. So his agents are now like if you talk to his 666 00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:31.719 agents now, they're like, what are you doing? Well, you know, 667 00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:43.480 I'm being sued for being a racist because Terrence Howard. Well you know 668 00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:51.320 it was my client and I got him a job on Empire. But because 669 00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:53.599 he says because he was black, I didn't get him the good, the 670 00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:59.400 good stuff, that's too bad. I didn't know you're a racist. But 671 00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:05.119 I can'sociate with you anymore because that's that's horrible. I mean, So that's 672 00:51:05.119 --> 00:51:08.719 where that guy is now. The deal that he got him gave him three 673 00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:13.800 hundred and fifty thousand dollars an episode. That's what he was earning on Empire. 674 00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:19.440 That's really good. That's a sweet ast deal. Three hundred and fifty 675 00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:22.599 thousand dollars an episode. I'll take it to walk in there and pretend you're 676 00:51:22.639 --> 00:51:25.599 someone else for I don't know what is eight nine ten days an episode. 677 00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:30.000 That's a lot more than a Broadway show would make an actor. That's very 678 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:34.199 good because I used to make TV deals, mister Broadway pants, and when 679 00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:37.480 we would bring, when we would am I My job was at CBS to 680 00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:39.440 pay people as little amount of money as they're willing to work for, because 681 00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:43.639 that's the marketplace. So you did it by the quote system, which is 682 00:51:43.679 --> 00:51:46.880 since become illegal. And the quote system was call around and see what this 683 00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:50.800 person made, and if they were on a TV show and it was a 684 00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:54.519 successful TV show, bump them up five ten thousand an episode. If it 685 00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:58.239 was if it never aired, but they were on a pilot, you're going 686 00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:00.199 to get the same thing you got last time, and tell you we're on 687 00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:05.119 a successful show. So that's how we did it, and you know you 688 00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:07.599 could. It's a it's a business you could count on. Uh, it's 689 00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:12.519 a little more complicated now, but if we had someone from Broadway, and 690 00:52:12.559 --> 00:52:16.119 I would say, like, who do we got here? Uh, Sidney 691 00:52:16.119 --> 00:52:20.320 Portier. This is a true story. I got Sidney Portier's gonna read for 692 00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:24.199 this role in this stupid TV show. Okay, I'll call up and make 693 00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:29.159 an offer, and then the casting department go, okay, Joe. Now, 694 00:52:29.159 --> 00:52:31.880 I don't know if you know who Sidney Portiers, but guess who's coming 695 00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:40.639 to dinner? And he is in the Uh, well it's one that one. 696 00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:44.639 I forgot that one exactly yeah, but exactly yeah. I go, 697 00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:46.880 really, I only heard of one of them. Anyway, I knew he 698 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:55.199 was a a legend. But my job was to pay Sidney Portier the least 699 00:52:55.199 --> 00:52:59.079 amount of money he's willing to work for. So I got to do the 700 00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:04.360 quote system. So I call all around. How much does he? Uh? 701 00:53:04.679 --> 00:53:08.199 What was he making? Uh? In Broadway? Think something? Meanwhile, 702 00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:13.440 I'm paying two hundred and fifty grand a week for William Shatner, two 703 00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:15.880 hundred and fifty grand an episode for William Shatner, two hundred grand for Chuck 704 00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:22.440 Norris. At the time, Wow, Uh, Sidney Poortier, he was 705 00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:27.360 making like forty five hundred a week. Uh Uh In Broadway. So I 706 00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:29.079 you know, they asked me, what are you going to offer him? 707 00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:30.320 Don't know, forty five hundred episode. I knew I would offer him a 708 00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:32.800 little more than that, but I just wanted them to panic. Oh boy 709 00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:37.119 did they panic. Oh my lord, they hit, They just hit the 710 00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:40.079 ceiling. I forgot what I ended up. I think I ended up offering 711 00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:44.199 him like seventy five an episode. And his agent was said, are you 712 00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:46.400 kidding me? You know, something like that or whatever. If you want 713 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:52.920 to hear Sidney Portier Cuss, go on Spotify and look for the crank call 714 00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:59.880 called tussor with Love, which I believe is on there. And he's a 715 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:02.039 he's a beautiful, wonderful man, but this crank caller, guy Longmont postion 716 00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:07.760 Castle, got him to lose it. And there are other stories coming up 717 00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:14.400 after the break. Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood, Well Hollywood, you mean 718 00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:21.400 Burbank. We're here with mister Broadway Pants and Sam the Engineer, and we 719 00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:27.159 were talking about Terrence Howard suing c AA, the biggest agency in the world, 720 00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:31.119 over the show Empire because he claims he was underpaid on the Fox series. 721 00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:36.440 And you know, legally, I'm here to tell you, I don't 722 00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:42.559 get it. You make an arm's length negotiation and you hire your agents and 723 00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:45.719 their agents when you sign with them, they'll tell you that they you know, 724 00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:51.800 I would, I would, I would assume like in the language I've 725 00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:54.920 seen for representations, I can't always promise the outcome. You know, we're 726 00:54:54.960 --> 00:55:00.280 not here to promise you the ideal outcome, and you don't have to go 727 00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:02.639 here. And you can also make these deals yourself. But if you want 728 00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:07.039 us to work on behalf of you, you know, you got to kind 729 00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:12.039 of tell it. You work with us, but you got to live with 730 00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:17.800 the results unless you find some negligence. And so I guess in a trial 731 00:55:17.880 --> 00:55:22.079 we would be looking for some negligence, but I don't think we're going to 732 00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:27.880 find them because he just said it was racism just that caused them to not 733 00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:36.280 pursue as good a deal as they could have because he was black. So 734 00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:38.239 I asked, Sam, if you wanted to live in a world where you 735 00:55:38.239 --> 00:55:42.760 could just, you know, sue your agent if you didn't like how the 736 00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:47.039 deal turned out absolut years later, and Sam, Sam is a I think 737 00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:51.360 that you should go ahead and do that. I, on the other hand, 738 00:55:51.599 --> 00:55:55.639 think that agents have it hard enough, and everybody's sitting around the table 739 00:55:55.639 --> 00:55:59.480 saying, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna try to get you the most money 740 00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:04.639 that we can get you, and we also want you to understand that the 741 00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:08.480 more money you get, the more we get. So it's not like an 742 00:56:08.519 --> 00:56:10.440 agent. So you would have to if I'm in the jury, you would 743 00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:16.559 have to make me believe that this agent is trying to get the most money 744 00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:22.320 he can to pay for his boat and everything. But if the client's black, 745 00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:29.320 he'll pull back a little because it's just not right to ask for that 746 00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:36.159 much money because we all understand that, you know, given the situation, 747 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:39.280 he shouldn't have as much money as a white person. Does he think a 748 00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:44.679 jury is going to go for that? And the answer, by your eyes 749 00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:46.760 is no, no, that's no, a jury won't go for that. 750 00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:51.960 But that doesn't it doesn't mean that he doesn't have the right to sue. 751 00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:58.000 Well, what about I'd like to use in the case like this is the 752 00:56:58.039 --> 00:57:02.559 courts are there for the people who don't have access to justice on their own. 753 00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:09.000 So the court comes in and is for every man and the underprivileged to 754 00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:15.360 fight the power. And if you clog the courts with cases from people who 755 00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:21.480 are making three hundred and fifty thousand dollars an episode so that they can I 756 00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:24.360 like it to say, it's the millionaires trying to become billionaires and now they're 757 00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:30.760 going to use the court system to do it. It could be described as 758 00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:37.679 wrong, and you know, he he's using the courts in a way that 759 00:57:37.719 --> 00:57:43.119 they can be used. But morally, I think you should let someone else 760 00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:47.239 have access to justice and kind of just move on to your next You're also 761 00:57:47.320 --> 00:57:52.880 like in Hollywood in general, it's not your first deal that's going to get 762 00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:57.719 your rich. You're second or third deal, So just you don't cry so 763 00:57:57.840 --> 00:58:00.320 much about your first deal. And this is not his first. It might 764 00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:02.440 be a second or third deal, but three hundred and fifty thousand an episode. 765 00:58:02.679 --> 00:58:07.440 He's a superstar, and you know, maybe you should have got profits, 766 00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:09.519 but wow, you know, you move on, You move on to 767 00:58:09.559 --> 00:58:13.000 your next show, and you get them. There's no reason why he can't 768 00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:17.679 get a million in episode someday, likely like other people that have gotten those 769 00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:22.559 fears. There's no there's no reason why he can't. So my advice to 770 00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:28.320 you, Terrence is look to the future and get to a million dollars and 771 00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:34.000 get those profits, but or produce your own shows and get those profits. 772 00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:37.880 But this is a way to not get to a million dollars. Because he 773 00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:40.400 even said, he goes, I may never work again because I'm doing this. 774 00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:45.599 I'm going after the most powerful agency. And this agency has does have 775 00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:47.800 power. Yeah, and they And let's say a movie comes out and says 776 00:58:49.039 --> 00:58:52.840 this is a movie. We've already got Terrence Howard attached. We want to 777 00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:59.039 go after this CAAA client of yours. Let's say it's Florence Pugh. I 778 00:58:59.039 --> 00:59:01.159 don't know who a re agent is, but we want Florence Peugh to be 779 00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:07.920 in this show with with with Terren Toward. How's that gonna go? Sam? 780 00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:12.119 Not well, no, no oh, we have a TV show. 781 00:59:12.119 --> 00:59:15.800 It's a million in episode, but it's not for you. We have another 782 00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:21.920 one one hundred one thousand in episode, and we we will put Florence Pew 783 00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:25.119 in that one because there's only eleven one point one million available for the cast, 784 00:59:25.119 --> 00:59:28.400 and we're gonna give a one million to Florence Pugh. We're gonna give 785 00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:34.000 a hundred thousand to Terrence Howard because we hate him and he sued us and 786 00:59:34.039 --> 00:59:37.239 he called us racist, and we're the most powerful agency in the business. 787 00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:39.840 So if he would have called me, I would have advised against this, 788 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:45.159 and I would think he would he would someday he could get He's a great 789 00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:46.559 actor. He was in wo was in Hustle and Flow. What a great 790 00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:52.320 movie A long time ago Greig Brewer film. He hit his peak right off 791 00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:55.119 the bat, though, Yeah, he like his critical peak was right off 792 00:59:55.199 --> 00:59:59.559 the bat. He was great anyway he would he could, he could get 793 00:59:59.559 --> 01:00:01.039 there, but the I don't know if this is the best way to get 794 01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:06.559 there. He also had problems when they got him this show. He had 795 01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:09.800 a restraining order against him for domestic violence against his wife, Michelle Howard. 796 01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:15.639 She claims that he abused her throughout their short marriage, even threatening to kill 797 01:00:15.639 --> 01:00:20.039 her. That's her version of it. But the agents, I'm not saying 798 01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:22.079 that's true. There's no evidence that I see, you know, just she 799 01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:25.920 said he said whatever. But that's what his agents had to go through. 800 01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:29.760 And then they had to say, hey, look I got Terrence Howard. 801 01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:31.159 He's mprobably know, he's got some problems in the past. None of that 802 01:00:31.199 --> 01:00:32.880 was true, blah blah blah. What he got for him. I got 803 01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:38.840 three fifteen episode. Wow, that's pretty good. And do they throw out 804 01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:44.840 a figure that he thinks would justify his value. Not yet, because I 805 01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:49.280 would like to I'd be curious to know what his market price. He just 806 01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:52.719 says there's a lot of wealth there, that there's so much that there was 807 01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:55.760 for a while there was fifteen million viewers, so that the generated wealth from 808 01:00:55.840 --> 01:01:00.880 the advertising revenue should be shared with him. Now they don't share advertising revenue 809 01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:07.079 with anybody, So what they share is what your profits come from is not 810 01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:14.599 from advertising revenue. It's from syndication revenue. Because when you sell a show 811 01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:17.159 to a TV series, they're barely paying for the cost of the show. 812 01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:21.840 They might even be underpaying for the cost of the show. But when you 813 01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:27.639 sell it in its afterlife, all the Empire episodes, if they're on My 814 01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:34.039 TV or Cozy TV or even Netflix for a few years, that's going to 815 01:01:34.119 --> 01:01:37.320 generate some money, and that money would be shared with the profit participants. 816 01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:42.599 It's arguable whether he should have got that or not, but it's one of 817 01:01:42.639 --> 01:01:47.480 those things where you can go forward and you can get it next time, 818 01:01:49.199 --> 01:01:54.000 or you can sue these people and call them races. And I guess the 819 01:01:54.079 --> 01:02:00.480 idea is enough is enough, I'm going to sacrifice my career to oh that 820 01:02:00.559 --> 01:02:04.480 this happens to other people of color and they've got and we've got to stop. 821 01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:07.400 I think that's his point. He's doing it. He's taken one for 822 01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:09.800 the team. He doesn't mind if his career suffers because he's gonna do it 823 01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:16.280 for actors coming forward. Do not treat other actors of color like this. 824 01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:22.480 And if white people get profits, everybody gets profits if they're talented actors. 825 01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:24.119 I'm sure that's what he would tell you he's doing, and he's and it's 826 01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:28.599 a noble thing. I'm not smart enough to know whether in the long run 827 01:02:28.679 --> 01:02:31.840 that's a more noble thing. The guys who are being called racist to them, 828 01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:37.239 they're just like, I'm gonna probably get out of this business and get 829 01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:39.159 into the felt industry or something. I can just you know, working on 830 01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:45.480 his day without someone trying to destroy me with accusations like this. Ah. 831 01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:51.800 The felt industry is a growth industry, you know what. It's a it's 832 01:02:51.840 --> 01:02:54.000 a good business. There's a there's a good business. The filth industry. 833 01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:59.079 You get a lot of benefits and all the markers you can handle, and 834 01:02:59.119 --> 01:03:04.960 you can you can you help children because sometimes you know, they make those 835 01:03:05.679 --> 01:03:09.599 felt uh storyboard hour, you know you here's the sun, you know, 836 01:03:09.639 --> 01:03:15.000 and then here's the here's the bird flying by. Those are fun, beauty, 837 01:03:15.079 --> 01:03:17.159 Thanks Sam for making it beautiful. Towards the end, here we got 838 01:03:17.159 --> 01:03:39.960 one more segment coming up. Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood continues, Yeah, Joe, 839 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:47.480 ask Colorante. Here's my lawyer. You don't want Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood 840 01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:52.360 by Hollywood, you means bird Bank. All right, I've got a lot 841 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:54.800 of stuff to cover before we get out of here. Uh. The we 842 01:03:54.800 --> 01:04:00.800 were talking earlier about January first, Mickey Mouse goes in to blic domain this 843 01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:04.239 January first, twenty twenty four, Mickey Mouse from the Steamboat Willie era. 844 01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:09.559 Though, So don't be running around getting crazy with the guy, you know, 845 01:04:09.639 --> 01:04:12.320 the guy in the wizard hat. None of that. It's just the 846 01:04:12.360 --> 01:04:16.280 old rat faced one. A lot of stuff goes into public domain every year. 847 01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:21.360 And mister Broadway Pantry were talking about the Great Gatsby recently went into public 848 01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:27.199 domain. Yes, yes it did. And so now there are two musicals 849 01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:31.519 that are gonna make make their attempt at reaching Broadway from two different production companies. 850 01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:36.719 One ran in October in New Jersey at the paper Mill Playhouse and that 851 01:04:36.840 --> 01:04:42.239 started Evan Noble Azzada of Hadestown fame. And then the other one will be 852 01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:45.679 premiering in Cambridge in twenty twenty four from the American Repertory Theater, and that 853 01:04:45.719 --> 01:04:50.599 one's just called Gatsby. Gats Now was there or the is the first Broadway 854 01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:56.599 treatments of the of the Great Gatsby? To my knowledge it is. I 855 01:04:56.639 --> 01:05:00.079 know there is an immersive theater off Broadway immersive production of the Great Gatspeed, 856 01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:03.239 but I don't know if there's ever been a Broadway show. As long as 857 01:05:03.239 --> 01:05:10.400 there's not an immersive rent, then I'll be okay, okay, well yeah, 858 01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:13.840 so And the one thing to keep in mind about Mickey Mouse in the 859 01:05:14.559 --> 01:05:18.159 as your attorney, I have to advise you there's still a trademark on Mickey 860 01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:24.000 Mouse for theme parks. So this isn't like you can associate Mickey Mouse with 861 01:05:24.039 --> 01:05:30.039 your product. You know, you can't say I've got Mickey Mouse cupcakes or 862 01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:34.960 whatever Mickey Mouse rave I'm putting on or whatever. They have a trademark. 863 01:05:34.960 --> 01:05:39.760 They have so many trademarks they will come after you. But so you could 864 01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:45.039 take the rat face Mickey mouse and you could put them on something and get 865 01:05:45.039 --> 01:05:47.119 away with it. But you got to be really careful because just because you 866 01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:50.440 think you're following all the rules doesn't mean they won't send you a cease and 867 01:05:50.480 --> 01:05:55.840 desist and just make your life hell. So you got to be careful with 868 01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:58.159 that kind of stuff. All right, back to what we were talking about 869 01:05:58.199 --> 01:06:09.840 before with Terrence what's his name, Terrence Howard and some we got another case. 870 01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:12.239 Well, actually this one doesn't have anything to do with that one. 871 01:06:12.280 --> 01:06:17.400 This one involves fifty Cent. He's developing a documentary on the P Diddy allegations, 872 01:06:17.440 --> 01:06:20.960 because you know P Diddy has got a lot of women suing them for 873 01:06:21.079 --> 01:06:25.800 sexual assault, and isn't that weird? Like fifty Cent's going to take the 874 01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:30.440 lead on this very strange. Yeah, So I mean, why would you 875 01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:32.079 want to, like, why would you want to do that? And you're 876 01:06:32.119 --> 01:06:35.199 gonna make any money? Well, actually this thing might make money. He 877 01:06:35.559 --> 01:06:41.719 put on Twitter that he is going to proceeds from this documentary will go to 878 01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:47.119 victims of sexual assault and rape very good, not just sexual assault, also 879 01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:53.639 rape very good. We got to support those shorties. You know, yeah, 880 01:06:54.119 --> 01:06:58.159 okay, so I just thought that was weird. I just thought that 881 01:06:58.239 --> 01:07:06.440 was weird. Now we got another story about trying to like get to everything 882 01:07:10.159 --> 01:07:14.519 Adam McKay's don't look up. Did anybody here see it? Uh no, 883 01:07:14.599 --> 01:07:16.920 but I remember you telling me about your feelings about it. I thought it 884 01:07:16.960 --> 01:07:20.119 was good. A lot of people said it was uh. You know, 885 01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:25.880 Leonardo DiCaprio in it, and he's always good. And it was one of 886 01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:28.880 those streaming movies like during the pandemic. You're like, hey, we don't 887 01:07:28.880 --> 01:07:32.400 have to go to the theater, We're going to watch premiere Hollywood Entertainment right 888 01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:35.880 here in our homes. And I had didn't have a problem with it. 889 01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:39.840 Some people thought it was dumb. I'm one of those people. You thought 890 01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:45.440 it was dumb, mister Broadway and hester didn't care for it. But there's 891 01:07:45.440 --> 01:07:47.880 a problem. So we don't know how much it made. It was on 892 01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:55.239 Netflix. They didn't really tell you. But in twenty twelve, a Louisiana 893 01:07:55.280 --> 01:08:03.360 Baths author published a book called Stanley's Comment and he claims they stole his book. 894 01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:10.320 He says they just and then okay, what do you okay? Could 895 01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:13.559 that be true? What do you have to have. What are the two 896 01:08:13.599 --> 01:08:16.560 things we must have for a copyright infringement case. Well, I don't expect 897 01:08:16.600 --> 01:08:23.000 you to remember, but number one is we need substantial similarity. Are these 898 01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:31.000 products or these works substantially similar? Meaning could it would it be too hard 899 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:36.159 to believe that they were independently created. One of them had to copy from 900 01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:41.760 the other. So to the point where you say, oh, they are 901 01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:45.600 substantially similar in a legal sense, okay, so you have to have that. 902 01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:49.399 The number one is you have to have access. The one person had 903 01:08:49.399 --> 01:08:54.119 to have access to the material. So if you send it to somebody and 904 01:08:54.119 --> 01:08:56.159 they say, oh, thank you very much, and then they make something 905 01:08:56.319 --> 01:09:01.640 very similar, that's the access. If you if it was widely disseminated and 906 01:09:01.680 --> 01:09:08.920 published and everybody saw it, like maybe the movie Star Wars. Everybody had 907 01:09:08.960 --> 01:09:13.199 access to Star Wars. So that we assume the axis is there substantial similarity 908 01:09:13.520 --> 01:09:18.920 we're gonna for the tryers of fact maybe to discover. And it's kind of 909 01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:21.760 like it. It couldn't have been independently thought of, you know, like 910 01:09:21.800 --> 01:09:25.600 monkeys in a typewriter, monkeys in a room with the type of a thousand, 911 01:09:25.640 --> 01:09:28.319 monkeys with a thousand typewriters, and they all work, and it goes 912 01:09:28.359 --> 01:09:30.039 on for a long time, and the monkeys live long enough to spit out 913 01:09:30.079 --> 01:09:32.199 some Shakespeare. It's a lot of work hours. Yeah, it's a lot 914 01:09:32.199 --> 01:09:38.239 of work hours, and there's no lost time accidents. Then you could if 915 01:09:38.239 --> 01:09:41.399 that, if it couldn't happen that way, then you have substantial similarity. 916 01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:47.079 In this case, the access that William Caller is is asserting is that he 917 01:09:47.920 --> 01:09:53.399 gave it to this one girl who gave it to this one guy who worked 918 01:09:53.560 --> 01:10:00.399 for the company that represented Adam McKay, And so there is a little chain 919 01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:06.079 and it was sent over there, and you could infer that it was sent 920 01:10:06.159 --> 01:10:10.319 there to his representative. He got a chance to look at it. That's 921 01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:13.119 if you're trying the other if you're Adam McKay or so, I didn't see 922 01:10:13.119 --> 01:10:15.880 that book. I don't read everything book that comes into my my manager's office. 923 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:19.399 I don't know who this guy is. So where did the idea come 924 01:10:19.399 --> 01:10:24.439 from? So if there's a lawsuit, he'd have to reveal, Well, 925 01:10:24.439 --> 01:10:29.039 here's where I got it from. I thought of it very creative, and 926 01:10:29.079 --> 01:10:32.159 Adam McKay is very creative. Now, what about the substantial similarity as I 927 01:10:32.279 --> 01:10:35.279 have gone over this thing, so you don't have to. It looks to 928 01:10:35.319 --> 01:10:44.520 me like there's no smoking gun. It's just, well, there's a guy 929 01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:49.680 who discovers that a comment's going to land on the earth and he's trying to 930 01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:51.800 tell everybody, Hey, everybody, you got to pay attention to this, 931 01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:57.479 and for political reasons, they ignore him, and then you know the comment's 932 01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:02.680 coming and m mister Brody pinch. Do you think two people could think of 933 01:11:02.720 --> 01:11:08.119 that same plot if they've seen the movie armyged In? Ooh ooh possibly oh 934 01:11:08.279 --> 01:11:11.880 sick per sicker. Yeah, it's that kind of thing where you kind of 935 01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:13.880 go back. Or maybe he didn't steal from them, maybe he stole it 936 01:11:13.880 --> 01:11:19.279 from someone else. Yeah, So we'll follow this story and keep you up 937 01:11:19.279 --> 01:11:23.760 to date on who's gonna win and whether this guy's going to get a pay 938 01:11:23.840 --> 01:11:27.199 day or they're gonna because if they, you know, because he either fight 939 01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:29.840 if you're Adam and Kay, either fight it like screw that guy, or 940 01:11:29.880 --> 01:11:30.560 you're like, well, I just give him some money, but then I'm 941 01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:33.640 gonna have to admit that I stole it, So that's how these things go. 942 01:11:33.800 --> 01:11:36.399 Or he has to share his story about how he came up with the 943 01:11:36.479 --> 01:11:40.960 idea. Yeah, maybe that's not a pretty story. No, maybe he 944 01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:45.600 stole it from a child something that was Yeah, yeah, starving African child. 945 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:49.279 That would be even worse. All right, So, Uh, anyway, 946 01:11:49.319 --> 01:11:53.720 we're gonna wrap up things here pretty soon, and I want to let 947 01:11:53.720 --> 01:11:57.000 you know that the Vandal's Christmas Show is sold out at the at the Anaheim 948 01:11:58.399 --> 01:12:04.039 Uh how the Blues. It's sold out really early this year, so you're 949 01:12:04.079 --> 01:12:06.640 not going to get to see that there if you don't already have tickets. 950 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:12.680 But we added a second night at the Ventura, the Majestic Ventura Theater in 951 01:12:12.760 --> 01:12:15.279 Ventura, California. It's a nice spot, right, so you can see 952 01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:19.600 it there. And there's a million tickets available for that. I mean not 953 01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:23.399 a million, but there's some. By the time you're hearing this in the 954 01:12:23.399 --> 01:12:26.880 podcast, that could be gone, so you better hurry. The entire population 955 01:12:26.920 --> 01:12:30.000 of Ventura County will be there. All the Nardcourt people we have will be 956 01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:32.960 there. We have to celebrate Josh's birthday. Yeah, Josh Frees, our 957 01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:39.760 drummer, was born on Christmas Day and that's always special. And this year 958 01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:45.399 the theme of the Christmas shows is fruitcake delicious. I was thinking we could 959 01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:48.880 start calling it Josh Miss Josh Miss. Keep working on that, all right, 960 01:12:49.039 --> 01:12:54.079 I'll run it through some people and see if we can come up with 961 01:12:54.119 --> 01:12:59.239 something better. That's pretty good. See my nephew over here, mister brodbay 962 01:12:59.239 --> 01:13:00.880 pants beat you there, you go, all right? Let's I now will 963 01:13:01.479 --> 01:13:05.760 leave you with just a taste of the greatest song ever written. What would feel