Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, across the
street from a Wienerschnut that serves beer. This is two hours of the business,
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get it automatically. Now, Sam, have you seen any movies this week?
We're going to the movies. No, but I have been meaning to
go see the Ninja Turtles movie. I've heard amazing stuff about it. Well,
fortunately the host of this program has not given up on the movie theaters.
And I have seen the Mutant Ninja Turtle Mutant Mayhem movie, and we'll
talk about that in just a bit. We have a box office. It's
just like it's just so much like a year ago. I forgot that.
I don't know there was a year ago. There was a movie I just
read. It was like this is what was the big movie a year ago?
And it was like a thirty million dollar movie. Now we have a
billion dollar movie, Barbie, crossing a billion dollars worldwide this week. It
dropped off only forty three percent. If a movie drops off less than fifty
percent, it's doing really well. And this one's dropped off forty three percent.
Some of the theaters reduced amount of theaters, like one hundred and fifty
nine less than last week, doing another fifty three million this weekend four hundred
and fifty nine million domestically, and then over a bill And as we said,
it's and now have you seen this movie? No, no, I
haven't, but my daughter and co parent have seen it together and they both
raved about it. And I'm I'm definitely going to see it at some point,
just because I want to see what all the hubbub is about. I
saw, I saw Oppenheimer. I got to see the Barbin part of it.
Yeah you do. Uh yeah, it's just the only people that don't
like it are people that are over concerned about woke things. And I would
have to say, I think I said this last week, you really have
your mind in the wrong place if you're trying to pick woke things out of
this movie, because Barbie is the you know it is, it is what
all the woke people or the feminists what they thought Barbie was the biggest evil
that was ever produced by American culture. And somehow they managed to thread a
needle and make Barbie likable to not just those people. But um, you
know, it's kind of a compromise. Hey, look, I'm Barbie.
This is this is what I do. This is this is me being Barbie.
And somehow they got a story out of it. It's and still I
want to see it again because the story is pretty complicated, the plot,
it's actually complicated. It's Um, I wouldn't be surprised if Christopher Nolan really
made a Barbie movie too. I wouldn't be surprised if that is a conspiracy.
I can float out there anyway. You gotta see Barbie. And if
you're if you're saying, oh, I would never see a movie about a
doll, you're an idiot. Okay. Number two we have Megaladon two the
Trench. Um, you know what I don't. I don't see these movies
usually saw Jos, loved it, moved on. But it is number two
in the box office. Did thirty million? Beat up Oppenheimer? That was
the big I don't Oppenheimer did twenty eight million, and um, you know
that's um, it's got over two hundred and twenty eight gross and that's pretty
good for a long, serious, R rated biopick. Um. I just
can't see too many people wanting to watch that movie again. The Oppenheimer.
Yeah, I mean there's things on, there's things I want to know.
I want to you know, I do want to see it again. I
just don't want to sit through it again. Yeah, no, I mean
pay also, I'll watch it when it comes out, okay, yeah,
like repeat and go to the theater. Yeah. But I know plenty of
people who are like, I've seen Barbie three times, four times, and
that's like, yeah, that's the thing they're all about. Top Gun.
Yeah, exactly exactly. So you know it's like Top Gun for girls.
But you know how many girls want to see Top Gun. They all went
to see it. They want to see the relive the volleyball scene on the
beach. I guess I don't know, but men should see Barbie and girls
should see Oppenheimer. Maybe not girls don't come want to see Oppenhammers, some
of them. But if you like Florence pew oo, Um, okay,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, number four, number five, Hunted Mansion, number
six, Sound of Freedom, number seven, Mission Impossible, Number eight Talk
to Me, which is a horror film about a hand. And then number
nine Indiana Jones. Um, that's kind of a sad story there a little
bit. But number ten elementals still haven't seen that. I don't know if
I will. Um, okay, So let's go back up a little bit.
How much time we got in this segment? About four minutes here.
I should start timing these segments. That's what I should do, Okay.
So um we got number four the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now I heard
this was good on a podcast called Puck puc K by Matt bellani Us,
guy that he's been on this show before. He's a entertainment legal journalist really,
and he said, give a good recommendation for it. So I was
up in the mountains. It's the only movie playing at the theater that I
hadn't seen up in the Big Bear Village theaters. And that's a problem when
you're me. You go to a theater and you go, oh, I've
seen all these, you know. So that was the only one we hadn't
seen, so my wife and I said, we're gonna go. I mean,
we went. It was fantastic, super funny, kind of like the
Spider Man animation. Yeah, I've seen and heard as much that it has
a very similar energy to the Spider Man movies. Yeah, a little different,
like sometimes things like Okay, this person's hair is just a bunch of
scribbles, you know, and yeah, real comic book feel. There's so
many jokes in it that are just firing rapid fire at you. You can't
get them all, you can't hear them all. Sometimes two jokes are being
told at once, three jokes are being told at once because there's four turtles.
Yeah, they it really really cool job. I mean, the plot's
not, you know, amazing, but it's it's all good. And one
of the main fears that these turtles have I don't I haven't seen any other
turtle movies, but evidently they're they're in constant fear that that that humans are
gonna milk them and their their their rat father tells them don't go out there
because the humans will get you and they'll milk you. Just like think someone's
want to milk them all the time. Um, so I thought that was
funny. Um, definitely would recommend that movie to anybody. And I saw
that in there, you know, in a fater full of kids. The
only problem was I kept getting blinded by this little girl's sneakers that you know,
kept going on, you know, because she's so fidgetty, so or
sneakers turn on and little light's gone sneakers. I don't know if you know
about that. You know your kids, you buy them light up shoes.
No, I avoided doing that one. Okay, well, I mean it's
kind of funny. I didn't bother me that much. Yeah, kids don't.
Kids don't bother me. Um Haunted Mansion number five. I saw that.
I saw it on Monday night. Um, you know, it was
funny enough. I mean there's a lot of jokes. It's funny, very
true to the ride. I mean, you're in the ride, you know
it's But when I found out that Germo del Toro wrote a script for this
movie and they rejected it because it was too edgy and two out there,
and then then I wanted somebody's head. Okay, this movie was just okay,
just good enough. Enjoyed it. I recommend it if you like the
Haunted Mansion. You like Disney movies, don't pass this up. But let
us find the person that rejected Germo del Toro's script and tar and feather that
person, because that's what it needed. Something far and out there like Sam
Barbie. Barbie's killing it with their pushing the envelope and they're out there script
that they that they somehow got Mattel to sign off on, and the Haunted
Mansion. Some whiney Weasley executives said they don't like the Gamo Deltro script because
it's a little too far out there. It's pushing the envelope too much.
Okay, we don't need that guy and Disney suffering. You don't need people
like that, so get rid of them. It's clean house, all right.
So h and then Sound of Freedom. We got some Sound of Freedom
news. Maybe we'll wait on that in the next segment. Sound of Freedom
it still beating Mission Impossible. It has made twelve million dollars more in money
than Mission Impossible. Indiana Jones is at one seventy million. It's only so
the Indiana Jones movie has only made seven million dollars more than Sound of Freedom.
And you pointed out that some people are buying tickets or sound Sound of
Freedom and they're not showing up empty theaters or whatever. Astroturfing. Yeah,
well, I do know that UM companies like in and out Burger will buy
a theater, they'll buy out the whole theater, and then they'll tell their
employees to go, and then some of the employees don't want to go.
So that's where some of the sales come from. But they also, you
know, they got to make up for the people that want this film to
die, the pedophiles and other people or the pedophile the friends of the pedophiles.
Well, we have we have some more friends of Pedophiles stories coming up
after the break. Can we take the break now and check the traffic?
Yea, let's tack the traffic and we'll come back. Joe's Scalante Live from
Hollywood. Joe's excuse me there, Joe's Scalante Live from Hollywood. If by
Hollywood you mean bird Banka. Okay, we're still talking about movies, and
we were talking during the break. Sam and I were about Tom the Turtles,
and Sam says that they you think that's a hot property, the Ninja
Turtles coming forward. There's a video game. Yeah, well, well they
have a lot of different storylines and things like that that they that have are
in comic book for them. But there's one that's star it as a comic
about like six seven years ago and is being developed into a video game that
looks amazing. It's a really dark take on the turtles. It's called The
Last Ronan And if you know anything about the turtles, it's basically all of
them and like you know, Splinter and all of the turtles except for one
of them are killed and there's just one of them left. I love it.
Yeah, it's amazing. So yeah, if you get a chance to,
we'll look into that one. Check it out. The Last Ronin is
awesome. There there was a lot of um, I mean, I'm not
familiar with these turtles there. I'm too old to have enjoyed them as a
youth, and but I get it. You know, it's like, hey,
we skateboard wet pizza, and you think maybe they can just hang their
hat on that, but it was it was more than that. So I
recommend it to people who who you know, are just moderately open to the
idea of seeing it. It's not like I'm telling people, oh, whatever
you do, drop what you're doing and go see the Ninja Turtles because it's
life changing. No, but it was an interesting world under that in the
sewers. They live in the sewers. I think people know and I just
enjoyed it so sounded freedom. This film a lot of controversy, which is
bizarre because it just to me it's demonic people. Some people don't believe in
the devil. But when you're watching this movie, I encourage, highly recommend
this movie. When you're watching this movie and you're it's about a guy who
sets up a sting in Colombia and he gets in Cartagena, he sets up
a sting. I was not there for this sting, but the sting operation
is working with the Colombian government to get them to rescue some children. Because
this guy is a former law enforcement officer in the US and he was busting
a lot of pedophiles, but he was never rescuing the children. So he
wanted to go further and then he comes up with this insane plan and it's
it's kind of it's one of those things like a movie where where you think
there's no way he's going to get out of this. He can't pull this
off, This can't be done. And he goes into the jungle and he's
you know, no one will go with him, and he and he pulls
it us off. He rescues the children. Then they then you're like,
you're kind of in disbelief that anyone could be this gross to where they would
want to go to a party where all these children are going to be busted,
are floated in on these boats. It's basically about this, these um
these people that will order children young children, and so you you have a
hard time believing it that this is that this can actually happen, and so
maybe it's exaggerated or whatever, and so you just kind of take take it
for granted, it's not really maybe it's not really how it happened. Maybe
it's a little some theatrical license going on here. Then they show real footage
at the end of the actual sting, the party that the that these guys
put on. They put on a party and they floated in these children.
It was it was like the old Jasleneck joke. It was a camp for
kids about to be molested. And they got there and then they busted him
and they busted all the pedophiles and they rescue the kids. I mean,
it's not really a spoiler alert because we all kind of know what's going on.
The story is how he went about it and how he sacrificed everything in
his life. Now, for some reason, people are associating this with a
political movement and so they wanted to discount it. Um. So okay,
that's on them. I believe it's it's that's the demonic part. Why would
you be against this? Now? You maybe people don't believe in the devil,
but the devil is mentioned, you know, I don't know how many
times in the Bible, and most of the people in our country do believe
in the Bible. I'm one of them, um, And the devil is
mentioned all over. So who is the devil? What does the devil do?
Jesus talks about the devil all the time, and the devil does bad
things and causes people to do bad things. And when you see the real
footage of this pedophile island sting operation, you could there really were people there
that we would risk everything just to just to molesque kids, to rape kids.
They were I mean the risks are so high, I mean, what
is the there's what is the upside? You know what the downside is is
tremendous. But they do it anyway. What is their motivation? My opinion,
it's demonic. Now what is the motivation for people trying to get you
not to see this movie? Um? I also agree that's demonic. H
here's the latest article about the movie in Entertainment Weekly, where a guy named
Christian Hulubum, probably demonically possessed, has written an article with the following headline,
Sam, and you actually brought this to my attention. Sound of Freedom
crowdfunder arrested on child kidnapping charges. Okay, so this guy writes for the
Entertainment Weekly, and this is the story he wants to get across to people.
Hey, everybody, don't go see Sound of Freedom. Even the crowdfunders
are child molesters. They're trying to tell you that they're saving child molesters,
but they are really child molesters. That's the message that I'm getting from this
from this headline, don't go see this movie. It's it's there. They're
hypocrites. Basically, Now I knew this is this is ninety nine percent chance
this would be a b S story because I know people are working overtime to
try to get you not to see Sound of Freedom, So I read it.
It didn't take long to figure it out. This guy has nothing better
to do and is so committed to making you not see this movie that he
scoured through the crowdfunding list. Okay, you know in a movie's crowdfunding.
You know, you see these movies and at the end there's like thousands of
names in the credits. Hey, if you guys put up five hundred bucks,
put your name in the credits. He scoured it. Six out of
six thousand, six hundred and seventy eight people who invested an average of five
hundred and one dollars each, he found one person that had a kidnapping a
charge filed against them out of six thousand, six hundred and seventy eight.
And he doesn't tell you who that person, anything about that person, like
whether it's a uh. You know, we read all the time about the
child custody cases. Where you're in the you're in the social services business in
a way, Sam, you know what happens between people fighting over child custody.
They they the kids brought home late and they file a kidnapping complete now
he doesn't tell us anything about that. I don't know if this is the
worst kidnapper in the world. I don't know if he's you know, just
had some very toxic a relationship with his with the mother of these kids.
I don't know. I don't know the guy. There's nothing in there about
this guy's side of the story. The guy that was accused of this nothing.
He's just been accused of it, not convicted. But this is the
headline, sound of Freedom crowdfunder arrested on child kidnapping charges. Subtext, don't
go see this movie. Um wow. So despite all that, this movie
has beat mission impossible. So this is good versus evil in my opinion.
How much time I got left? Do you have more rants? You've got
about one minute? Okay, So Sam, I'm recommending you see this movie
and m and buy ten tickets, but only see one of them. But
they also do have at the end, Jim Cavizel. I don't know how
to pronounce his name really, um, even though I've met him. Um.
He has a message at the end saying if you want to buy tickets
for other people that don't have money, it's a way to you know,
donate to this cause because they're up against it on this thing. You know,
Uh, nobody wants this thing. It's very hard to sell a project
that it has to do with, um uh, sexual crimes against kids anyway,
because the entertainment executives, you know, they just don't want that to
be part of their daily work. And I understand that. But what's going
on against this film is is gross. Um. Okay, let's take a
break and we'll come back with more. Joe Scowante live from Hollywood. I
cannot live the brothers, can't Denis anyway, extent around in your face,
you say, all right. You know, at first I started to get
annoyed about these AI songs, but now I'm starting to enjoy them. I
think they they work well on this show. That was Presley singing, so
makes a lots I like Big Butts. Thanks for playing that, Sam Oh
yeah, no, absolutely my pleasure. Um. You know, I if
Elvis was alive today, may or he wouldn't even have to be alive today.
I mean that song came out in the eighties, right, Big Butts.
He could have sang that just hang on. He could have hang on
just for a little bit longer. And saying that song, it would have
been nice to see Elvis do a cover of that live on stage when like,
if he had lived long enough to be able to do that, he
was a guy that could really take anybody else's song and turn it into his
gold. So I think that's one that he could have really knocked out of
the park. Absolutely. Okay, as far as the movies go, I
think we've I think we've burned it into the ground. You want to go
see The Ninja Turtles that if you haven't seen the Barbie and the Oppenheimer and
the Mission Impossible is Impossible is a great movie. So it's getting burned because
of the timing of when it came out. The same with the Turtles getting
burned a little bit. Same with Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones got burned.
But then there's a lot of Barbenheimer excitement of the movies that maybe Indiana Jones
was going to fail even worse, and Indiana Jones is still it's good enough,
it's good, it's better than the prior ones. And we're seeing so
let's go to television. There's a lot of noise going on right now.
Of there was a letter written by these some attorneys to NBC Universal, accusing
them of grotesque and depraved mistreatment on a reality TV series, or on many
reality TV series. You might see some headlines, and like many headlines that
happen, there's there's not much substance to this because they don't name the shows,
they don't name the people. They just say, NBC, we are
coming after you. And it's Mark Garages, who's like a you know,
a TV lawyer, like a publicity seeker. But so I wouldn't. I
mean, you might be hearing about this, but it just doesn't seem to
be more than maybe a shakedown and maybe a shakedown. And I don't think
they're gonna give a lot of sympathy out of these people because the years are
not likable people on most of these reality shows, and they're there only to
get famous, and you know, the mistreatment is like, you know,
you're going a long time without food and you're forced to do embarrassing things and
the hours are long and the pay is low, but that is you know,
my personal thing was just the time when somebody pooped on a slip and
slide that kills you where you draw the line, No, well, that's
where the like they killed an entire show before it even launched. Oh,
some pooped on the slipping's line. Yeah. I don't want to be a
part of a reality show like that. But I don't really want to be
a part of any reality show unless it's like a you know, got a
positive spin of some kind, but then it would get low ratings. So
you can't win in the reality TV business if you're on one of my shows.
I only hire experts, sam, I hire actors on my shows.
If you want to see my shows, they're on Fox Nation, Monsters Across
America and Alien Abductions with Abby HORNESSEC. I employ experts, authors and actors
and animators, so no one's getting harmed on my shows. But I don't
have the stomach for that kind of reality show. And maybe it's a bigger
business, but I don't have a stuff. I've never had the stomach for
a lot of businesses that are very big. Like when I owned a record
label for twenty something years, I didn't have the stomach for some things that
other record labels could do, like publishing, like buying people's publishing. If
you buy people's publishing, wild just diverting into the music business right now.
When whenever a songwriter sells, they're publishing or a portion of it. Sooner
or later someone tells them they got ripped off, no matter what was paid
for it and what it was worth, but they are getting people are telling
them you got ripped off. Why would you sell your publishing? Well,
they give me a large advance that they will never recoup and they're going to
run around and try to promote my music. Oh no, they're taking your
music. They're taking you. You just blew it, dude. So I
just wouldn't do it. I did it once and because there was some nice
guys that I knew that that wouldn't complain all the time and stuff like that.
I don't have a taste. I don't have the stomach to do these
kind of reality shows where you're harming people or pushing the envelope. But I
also think that there's a there is a there is a level of well,
you asked for it, you've seen a reality show, you know what it's
like. And then there's a lot of you know, they're shakedowns everywhere,
so this one and they're telling the people like preserve evidence, this is a
demand for you to preserve evidence because we're coming after you. I'm not I'm
not buying it yet. The music business right now, what's a big music
story going on right now? What do you think it is? Sam?
Something to do with AI and Elvis making a comeback. Maybe in your world,
but the rest of the world, it's Taylor Swift. Oh, yes,
yeah, she's been in town actually, like she just had what verse
or second night of her concert last night at so Far. Yeah, a
lot of fomo going on on Instagram. My wife's even got it. Like,
I don't know, man, it looks like everybody's at Taylor Swift.
Feel like I should be there, but uh, yeah, the shows look
great, she looks great, she sounds great, and it's making so much
money. It's like actually benefiting the economy in the towns that it's going to
with all the Uh, there's a lot of people working on that tour.
She was giving out one hundred thousand dollars bonuses to each truck driver earlier this
week. Okay, that's life changing. Someone hands you one hundred thousand dollars,
I feel bad because I feel like I should give you one hundred thousand
dollars bonus now now, that now that she's done it, So, um,
can that be a thing? I might, don't you know what,
I just it's just I'd have to I'd have to move around some money,
so I probably won't get around to it. Okay, it's the thought that
counts. I appreciate it. I would love to do that. It'll change
your life. Um. Uh. And then she has given out bonuses totally
over fifty five million dollars to everyone from dancers to riggers, to sound technicians
and catering unbelievable fluffers. What what's that to an in here? Lizzo,
on the other hand, go on the other she's been accused of sexual harassment
and weight shaming by her former dancers. Now, the reason why I would
take this a little more seriously than some of these other stories is because Lizzo
is a media darling. We're all rooting for Lizzo, aren't we. I
Mean, she's, um, the body positivity thing, and that you know,
the uh it is it is, you know, helped so many people
that didn't fit into the Barbie category. I mean, wouldn't you agree?
Yeah? No, she has definitely been influential. Uh. And she's a
positive for so everybody. She's a woman of color, Sam, I don't
know if you know that. Yes, she she ticks all the boxes.
She's everything that we are supposed to be loving right now, and we do
love her. Um and then, but now this story is getting a lot
of traction. There's a lot of Purvo stuff and here too, Sam.
I know you're not as sensitive as I am to the Purvo the purvo things
that are that are being thrown around in our society today. But at least
I do a better job pretending that I'm sensitive to them. Um. Yeah,
there's like, you know, touch other people's body parts. Uh.
I don't know a better way to use the word dildo. There's dildo's involved.
One of the quotes from the suit says, the stunning nature of how
Lizzo and her management team treated their performers seems to go against everything Lizzo stands
for publicly, while privately she wait shames at her dancers and demeans them in
ways that are not only illegal but absolutely demoralizing. Yeah. So anyway,
this one, normally I would be like, well, let's just this is
unfair. I mean, could it be true? It's got to be.
It's one of those things where like in your mind, your own it's got
to be true to some extent because who wants to go after Lizza And a
lot of times That's what I'm saying. You got to look at these these
news stories in that light because the there's so much bias now in the in
the writing. Um okay, So do we need to take a break here
or come on a break here? Keep coming here? Okay. When we
come back, we're going to talk about Tory spellings, a sad situation or
is it got some Disneyland news, some Disney news and morn coming up?
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So I was talking about it's a lot of bias in the reporting these days.
So I'm always careful when I read a story about a couple of people
like, if there's a story about Sound of Freedom, I look at it
skeptically, and today I was proved right. Two people sent me that story
about Sound of Freedom and some kidnapper and it's a it's a b S story.
Um as, uh, here's another one, Elon Musk. And are
any articles about Elon Musk? Like, now that he has been flirting with
conservatism, he's hated in the media. So you've got um, you got
to watch out. Here's an headline that I saw today as twitters add business
erodes, Elon Musk's ex Corps sues a nonprofit that tracks hate speech. Okay,
so this headline was, you know, designed to what's the message here?
The message is there is a very evil man afoot and he's doing horrible
things and his business and he's not only harming other people's harming himself because he's
so stupid. His ad business is eroding and he is and while that's going
on, he's suing a nonprofit. A nonprofit. Oh, that's terrible.
He must be really evil. What kind of a nonprofit? Is it?
One that promotes hate speech? No, he's suing one that tracks hate speech?
Oh? No, oh, okay, then when you dig into it,
well, what's the real story here. The story is the media hates
him, hates Elon Muskin. They like to tell you you even though this
guy made all the electric cars and made all that possible, they hate him
now. So every headline is they're trying to take him down, doing the
best they can. So this one is pretty silly. But the real story
here is that there's some company that is the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
It sounds like just that sounds just kind of just kind of boring, but
digital hate. Okay, So digital hate is, you know, it's kind
of subjective. But what they did is they they were taking information that was
proprietary and using that information to put out reports that would harm his advertising.
So his advertising is going down. One of the reasons, they believe is
the Center for Countering Digital Hate, because they're putting out reports and saying,
don't advertise on Twitter. There's so much hate here you can't believe it.
And since and here's the numbers, so they're sewing them. I'd sue him
too. Let's go to Disneyland for some more happier news. Sam, How's
that I really appreciate happy. I only went to Disneyland once this week.
That's sad Disneyland news. I was going to Disneyland to meet my friend the
Fancy Club, and on the way there, he's like, Hey, I
can't make it. I'm too busy. I'm I'm a very important person.
I can't be going to Disneyland at four thirty in the afternoon and then so
I'm already there by the time I get this message. So I'm just gonna
run. If you see me running around Disneyland by myself, a grown man,
all dressed up, you know, feel sorry for me. But Disneyland,
Disney itself right now, you know that Bob Iger is running things.
Came back blah blah blah, save the company. He has admitted that it's
in worse shape than he thought and he's having a hard time. So he's
brought back to God. This is the big news out of Disney right now.
He brought back these two guys, Kevin Meyer and Tom Staggs. Kevin
Meyer is the guy who left when they hired Bob Chapeck because he thought he
could run the place. And maybe he could, but he was he was
just kind of, you know, sour grapes. You're not going to make
me president CEO, then I'm leaving. So he went over to TikTok.
Lasted only a couple of months there, and then he went over to some
hedge fund kind of thing to raise money to buy other entertainment properties. Okay,
not his glamorous as being the head of Disneyland and Disney everything, but
you know, making some money. Tom Stags also over there with his hedge
fund. I think it's the same one. They're all together over there.
Tom Staggs used to be the head of a it's like the CFO. He's
the guy who at one point took ESPN out of the like bundle thing where
you like, if you buy cable, you get ESPN. Yeah, and
then he took it out of there. He had some scheme. He goes,
now we're gonna make people pay for blah blah blah. And then ESPN's
ratings plummeted, the income plummeted, just exacerbated cable cord cutting and all that
kind of stuff, and ESPN, which used to be the cash cow that
paid for everything else in the Disney world, is now something they're looking to
sell. Now. The reason why I'm bringing that up is because they the
word on the street is the smart money. Why would he bring these two
guys over that he passed over to be the CEOs last time, because they're
part of this hedge money. I think's budding up to him and saying,
hey, why don't you get your guys to buy CNN, to buy ESPN
off me? That's the smart money. So look for Bob Biker to start
selling Disney Disney properties. You can sell the stations, you can sell ABC
Network, you can sell like you know, free Form TV. He can
sell ESPN. He can That's a lot of things, and that's what he's
got to do something to turn it around. One thing they're trying to do
over there to turn it around is finally open up the Steakhouse fifty five.
This is more Disneyland Park news for you locals. Do you ever go to
Steakhouse fifty five Sam in the Disneyland Hotel? No, I've never been there.
Do you like an old fashioned steakhouse? I love an old fashioned steakhouse?
Okay, well there, you know most of them are in LA you
know the ones that I grew up going to and h but this one is
an Anaheim, you know, at the Disneyland Hotel, and it was a
classic I mean, it wasn't around for you know, since the thirties or
something like that. But but they did a great job and they turned this
thing was the most insane breakfast. I spent my fifty fifth birthday there actually
get it. So yeah, so it was so I was so devastated when
they decided to close it down. And you know, it's probably it was
probably the same guy that rejected the Guiermo del Toro haunted mansion script that closed
this down. It was that bad of an idea. And and it's been
sitting vacant for years and now they've the big news is from our friend Brady
McDonald's an Orange County Register. They're going to turn it into a a brighter
area bar and restaurant seasonal something. First of all, I never fall for
the brighter an area or thing. That's what people like. Oh why don't
we paint all the walls in um, this cool looking place white and get
a bunch of white furniture, a bunch of square plates, and they'll be
brighter an area. When I like a dark, old fashioned steakhouse. And
that's what that was and it's gone and it's never coming back. So Disneyland,
they got a lot of thinking to do about these decisions they're making.
And I M, well, you know, I mean, you know,
if they sell ESPN on a cry, who cares? Who owns ESPN?
Who cares who owns ABC? They about ABC Television like in the nineties,
it was like it wasn't even like they didn't own a network before. They
weren't even allowed to own networks before because they were a studio. So it
didn't work. None of this is working out for them. So maybe if
they pare down and just stick to really cool parks and make some of their
movies better. Maybe fire that guy that turned down the Gama though total script
on Curiously, what was that all about? That one hurts my feelings.
Yeah, they need to resurrect that and and make that movie. Who would
Okay, there's such a thing. The only other thing, you know,
the only other villain I have this week is Tory Spelling's mom, Candy Spelling.
Um, there's a big to do because Tory Spelling she's got a mold
problem in her house. And I gotta tell you, if you live in
Beverly Hills and those houses I used to like, you know, I was
looking for a house and went to a bunch of open houses there, and
the ones that I could afford had the worst mold problems. I mean,
these people, you know, they age in Beverly Hills and they don't clean
it up and they don't take care of their houses. So I don't know,
she's got a mold problem. So she had to move her kids to
a motel for a while, and then she moved him to an RV and
they're just staying down by the beach. And she's got like five kids.
So the mom, Candy Spelling, is being scolded for not taking care of
her because you know that Aaron Spelling, the most successful TV producer of all
time, had an estate worth in the hundreds of millions, and I guess
Tory Spelling ended up this is the interesting part of the story. I know
you were waiting for it. She only ended up with about eight hundred thousand
dollars out of out of Aaron Spelling's money, according to this story, and
Candy Spelling was in charge of Aaron, you know, near his death.
Aaron Spelling used to come into my not my actual office, but you know,
on my floor and CBS a lot, and he was a big deal
to CBS, and but Candy controlled him near the end, and it's too
bad he couldn't do a better job of covering for his daughter. They did
have a falling out before he died, and so she ends up like this.
And I really don't think she's that bad of shape. I think she
just said, I don't want to waste money on a fancy hotel for all
this time while they're fixing my house at the moat, So let's take the
kids to a cheap motel for a while and then we'll go down to the
beach. And the shocking thing is how many paparazzi photos there are of Tory
Spelling running around doing this like she's not even hiding any of it. So
it can't be that bad for her. But she has a bad relationship with
her mom and probably just waiting for her to pass on. So oh,
I hear the music. It's time for us to go, Sam, It's
been great, there's always more stick around. I now leave you guys with
just a taste of the greatest song ever written.