Joe Escolante live from by Hollywood, I mean Burbank, across the street from
a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer. And we are live tonight, which is
November the nineteenth, twenty twenty three, and last week we were not on
the air because I was in a I went on a cruise, punk rock
cruise with the Vandals flogging Molly and Stiff Little Fingers and Pennywise into Baylee's in
Mexico, and I went to Orlando to Disney World since I was out there.
We're gonna do something a little different on this show. We're not gonna
start with the box office. We're gonna start with stories, and we'll do
the box office in the next segment. My first story is about a documentary
that I was interest until I found out true. So this is that I
was very excited to see Ruthless and it is the story of the origin of
Monopoly. I mean, come on, Oh does that sound interesting? Sam?
That sounds really cool? I got it. I'm so, this is
this a Netflix documentary? Where where's it at? No, it's a PBSBS
okay, yeah, extremely well made, interesting characters, interesting subject and it's
right for this show because it was about a trademark, the Monopoly game,
trademarked by the Parker Brothers company. And then some guy thought that the values
that the game Monopoly a celebrated, meaning you know, wild capitalism and one
winner and everyone else is a loser. He thought that he was offended by
that. He thought, why can't we have a game called anti Monopoly and
the goals to not get a Monopoly, I don't know, share the money
with everybody. So this guy was a professor and college professor, and he
he reworked the game to be an anti Monopoly game, and then he put
it out and people liked it. It was doing pretty well, and then
Parker Brothers sued him and said, that's a violation of our trademark. And
he's like, well, really is it really? You know, I'm just
so he had his reasons, like, you know, I'm doing something different.
Things are different. I'm not using, you know, all these elements
of yours. I got my own game. But they didn't like it,
and so they went after him and he didn't stop, and he fought them.
And it reminded me a lot of the time that I was sued or
the vandals were sued by Variety magazine because we did a parody of their logo
and wrote vandals similarly to where they write Variety, and our album was a
parody on you know the Hollywood, you know the casting couch basically, and
they went after us and they tried to ruin us, and they did everything
they could. So I could really sympathize with this guy that this big company
was trying to ruin him because Variety tried to ruin us, and he didn't
have enough money to fight it. We didn't have enough money to fight it.
We settled it the first time, and then they came back at us
and said, oh, we've seen your logo on YouTube, and I go,
yeah, we don't put it there like the old logo. It was
released. We took it off the market. We gave them, you know,
they made us put stickers on top of all the releases and never use
it again, destroy merchandise, all that kind of stuff, all because we'd
send it to them. They're artists, liked it, so we sent them
some hats and some albums and some stickers, and they said thank you and
then showed it to their bosses, and their bosses tell their lawyers and their
lawyers suit us. Anyway, we ended up winning that, but it took
year's out of my life and I had to get admitted to the federal bar
to do it myself because all the lawyers I talked to had terrible advice.
So this guy's fighting this thing the and he's fighting a giant company Parker Brothers,
of course, a giant corporation. And he gets offered money to settle,
won't take it. He's going to win, and he wants to be
able to put his game out and he wants to be able to talk about
it. And they're saying, no, we want to give you some money
and you don't talk about it, you don't put your game out, or
you can fight it us. So he fights, he fights them. You
know, it's like a sad story. He's getting bankrupt and then and then
in the end, this is spoiler alert. In the end, his he
goes to court and they rule against him. And then according to the documentary,
this man just wouldn't stop and he took his papers. This is straight
from the script. He takes his papers and he marches. He goes to
Washington and and because he's such a rugged individual, he knocks on the door
at the Supreme Court and he gets them to take another look at his case,
which is a Davy and Goliath case, and they rule in favor of
him and he is now the winner, and Monopoly Parker brothers lose. And
then you're and then I'm thinking, and I've gone to my wife. I'm
like, wait, how do you knock on the door of the Supreme Court
and get something get a decision to go to the Supreme Court? It takes
first you have to go to Circuit court, and then after you get a
determination there and there's like appeals and then at some point you can submit it
to the Supreme Court and then you know, would take a year for them
to look at it and say, okay, well we will take this case,
and then they will hear it and then they will make a ruling on
the lower court's decisions. And that's pretty much what the documentary said happened.
So I go, that's kind of strange. I don't know how they do
that, So I looked it up. It's a complete lie. Even though
this monopoly thing on PBS was was interesting, but it's only interesting if you
don't know that it's a lie. So what really happened when I went to
research it is the court lower courts ruled against him. Then the circuit courts
reversed that. So the Ninth Circuit Court reversed. He's done. He won.
Now Parker Brothers goes to the Supreme Court and begs the Supreme Court to
hear the case, and they finally do, and then the Supreme Court says
no, they finally don't. They never hear the case. So this is
so this guy. This documentary actually said the Supreme Court heard the case and
voted in favor of this guy that invented mante monopoly. They didn't even take
it. They they denied to take it. Okay, they said we're not
going to hear this case, and so it just went. It stayed with
the Ninth Circuit who had already were ruled in favor of this guy. So
this PBS documentary trying to create some drama, just made up stuff, and
you know, stuff that offended me because I go, that's not how the
courts work. I'm very interested in this from a trademark standpoint, because can
monopoly even own the trademark? Are is it a valid mark in the first
place? And what is the process that he went to prove that they didn't
own the trademark or they shouldn't own the trademark. Was fascinating to me,
but it didn't really the people who make the documentary and PBS, I didn't
care what was true. They're trying to tell some story. They were trying
to tell a Davey Angelia's story, and they had written script and then backed
the facts into the script that they wanted to. And then I felt a
little bit manipulated because you'd think a documentary on PBS would have the utmost vetting
and integrity and they would want to tell the truth. Why do a documentary
and just make up lies to tell a good story? And then it made
me doubt what else in this documentary is true and not true? What else
at PBS is true and not true. I'm going to take a break right
now and we come back. I'll get a little more into the actual case.
And what if Parker Brothers does own a valid trademark? When should they?
Now that I've got the lies out of the way, and you're listening
to Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood, Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood, the business
end of show business. Every Sunday here in k e IB, we were
talking about the monopoly documentary on PBS, which I discovered is kind of full
of lies. And for what I mean, this is a good story.
I think we could have made something good out of it. But what I've
discovered is they're so interested in making this Davy and Goliath a narrative, just
front and center and clarified. Just like so the poor guy whoever's making this
documentary, maybe he wanted to or she wanted to tell the truth, but
somehow the lies ends up on the screen. The guy, this guy named
mister Ann Sanch I'll get a little bit more into the actual trademark case and
the last say, we're just talking about how I figured out a lot of
it wasn't true. But mister Anspatch is a guy who's a professor at San
Francisco State. He invents anti monopoly, he releases it, Parker Brothers sue
him. He just goes on a rampage of research and figures out where that
trying to figure out maybe their trademark isn't isn't valid, and he discovers where
Parker Brothers got their trademark and where they got where they got the game from.
They bought it from a guy named Charles Darrow. Now Charles Darrow is
a guy who played Monopoly with his neighbor and I think they called it Finances,
and he played it there with his neighbor. He liked it. It's
like in the thirties. He likes it. He calls him up afterwards or
sends him a letter, you know people are back then their letters, hey,
and he says, can you write down the rules for me? That
was really fun to play, And he wrote down the rules. And then
Darrow started making him himself and he tried to sell him to games and told
everyone he invented it. And then the guy that the neighbor who really invented
it sent to was like walking by a store one day and he saw a
bank and it said, come and meet Darrow. Mister Darrow and the inventor
of the new sensational game Monopoly. And so he just really and he made
up a whole story about how he invented it. And that's like, so
it has some story. Monopoly ends up buying our Barker brothers ends up buying
it from him, and so this anspatch guy has got to prove that that
trademark is not even valid so he can have his anti monopoly. Now that's
a good story, that's a good fight. So all you got to do
is figure out that they stole it or and then find out where they got
it from and say theirs is invalid and challenge it and say that is not
valid because they stole it, the guy that they got it from didn't own
it, and other people were making the game simultaneously. So you can't just
get a trademark on something because you want to win. It's already out in
the marketplace. Now part of it is the Trademark Office's fault for giving a
trademark to something that was already out there in several different forms. Some people
were calling it finance or the Landlord's Game. I think the person that really
invented it was a woman named Lizzie McGee that had something called the Landlord's Game
and who knows where she got it. And the documentary is very interesting because
they follow the path of these kind of games. They're called folk games,
and they get handed down from generation to generation. People make their own versions
and they you know, they actually write them down on a board or paint
them on a board and they're like folk music, hand it down. So
this guy you know in the end, as I told you in the last
segment, hands up been winning it. But the case is that they tell
you he won by is by proving that it wasn't then it was stolen and
he did all this research, and then the research uncovered people who had already
played Monopoly before and found the guy you know that they found even the people
that the guy Darrow stole the Monopoly game from. But it's not really how
the case went. The case was was decided from the point of can you
trademark the word monopoly in association with the game? Is it a word that's
already being used for in that purpose? And other people were using the word
monopoly, So can you trademarket or can or can't you? The first court
said you can, they can trademark that, and they have the reasons.
Did anybody ever tell you the reason in this documentary? No nobody told the
reasons. But eventually it was settled on whether or not this is a common
term like band aid or murphy bed, one of these terms that if you
don't enforce it, you lose it, so they enforced it. They didn't
force it, so they kept it. Then over time the Circuit Court said,
nah, it's not you can't have it. You can't trademark that it
was used too many times by other people. But we never heard that from
the documentary. All we heard from this documentary is this Davy and Goliath story
that they It's all they wanted to talk about. So anyway, I mean,
I don't know. I felt a little violated. Should I do?
I recommend it kind of if you already know there's a lot of good history
in there. Maybe I don't know. As I'm telling you, I go,
how much hot? What else is a lie? In this documentary?
What else is a lie? On PBS? Similar to how I felt when
I watched the Flower Moon movie. Not only was it too long, but
it appears that they had one villain in there that was a Native American and
they turned him into a white person. You know, I found his picture.
I go, wow, this guy was not even Native American. Now
when I look in the Internet, I can't even find a picture of that
guy of any sort. So the conspiracy theory in me says, many they
took that off the internet, because it's a very complicated thing to think about.
If in the Flower Moon movie, the Orsese movie, they were Indians
who are villains because they want to make it black and white, right,
I just think you got to work a little harder on these things to make
them interesting but still tell the truth. And I get a little bit bugged
because you know, the people I work for. I make docuseries things for
Fox Nation, which is on by Fox News Channel, and when I tell
people this is what I do, they you know, some people say I
love Fox News, and then other people say, oh, that's just all
lies, lies, lies, lies. But there's no lies in anything I
make, and no one's telling me to lie. I mean, mine are
like paranormal stuff. Somebody's lying maybe if they said they saw were abducted by
aliens. But I don't know. I just don't. I don't get that.
But that's a reputation and here's PBS. These are demonstrable lies that are
being told, and you know, I don't know, maybe you're not as
mad about it as I am. So let's go back to the box Office.
Okay, that's who we usually start the show, and the box Office
this week is the leader is Sam. Can you take a guess? I
have no idea. Okay, what's playing at the theater that you live on
top of? At this point, I haven't really gone downstairs. I actually
was at the Burbank wine Walk yesterday, so I got to wander around and
stuff, but I didn't actually look at what movies were playing. That.
That's why movies are doing so bad is because people are coming up with too
many things for adults to do, like municipal concerts in the park, wine
walks, pub crawls. Pickleball. This is killing the movie industry, Sam,
pickleball is killing the film industry. Yes, you heard it here,
because pick a ball. It's not even like exercise. You stand there and
hit the ball back and forth. It's not like tennis. I'm just trying
to make pickleball people mad at me, Glory. I'd like to see you
play picklebull against me. Oh, why the court with your butt? Okay,
all right, let's go to the box office. Number one is The
Hunger Games, Sam, directed by some guy who Francis Lawrence, who directs.
He's famous for directing other Hunger Games trolls. Number two Marvel's number four
a total and utter disaster of a movie. But you and I are going
to go see it tonight. Okay, excellent, I'm down. Okay,
Actually I'm going to see Priscilla tonight, so I can't join you. But
when you go see it, you tell me what the verdict is. Number
three is Thanksgiving Eli Roth movie from Sony Pictures. Eli Roth is famous for
like like Saw movies, Not Gonna Gore, porn and Thanksgiving. It has
a plot, siwhat in't interesting to me? Sam about like a Black Friday
rage turned into horror. It's a shopping theme some for the ladies. Five
Nights at Freddy's Still hanging in there. Number five. That's one hundred and
thirty two million dollars and that's that. That movie is the moneymaker. Holdovers
number six, Number seven Taikey White, Titi's next goal Wins, which I'm
sure is funny. I'm just not in that big of a hurry. Taylor
Swift. Number eight, it's kind of an outlier. Number nine. Priscilla
has made sixteen million dollars. It probably costs twenty five to make his my
guess, but it's an eight to twenty four movie. Though they will squeeze
twenty or thirty more million out of that and ancillary markets and other territories.
Killers of the Flower Moon. The worst movie you ever made is number sixty.
Is sixty three million dollars that it's made and costs i'll be three hundred
million to make. Have you seen it yet, Sam? Not yet.
I'm not going to spend money to sit in the theater for four hours to
be outraged. Not my thing, dude. I would love for you to
do that so you could. Maybe it's maybe I'm being too hard on it,
but yeah, three hours and forty minutes. Whoa, that's longer than
this segment of radio. Yeah, let's take it to break. Okay,
we're going to take a break and we're going to come back with more exciting
stuff from Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe's Scalante Live from Hollywood. If
I Hollywood, I mean Burbank with the business end of show business every week
here on k EIB eleven fifty on your AM dial. And we just finished
up the box office. There's a couple of movies. I haven't gone to
the theaters because of my my travels, and Sam, I know you haven't
either because of your travails. Yes, I did see a streaming film,
a brand new made for streaming film called The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar About.
It's a Roald Dahl story, Sam So the guy who did Willie Wanka
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the peach of this guy. He's
a legend. So he wrote this in nineteen seventy six. I think are
released it in seventy three years or somewhere around there. And it's very interesting
this. I guess it's a short story. I don't know, but all
Wes Anderson did really is have like it seems like Benedict cumber Patch just reads
the book out loud and then they act out all the scenes in Wes anderson
glory. You know what that looks like. Oh yeah, so it's narrated
because the book is being read out loud. It's only thirty nine minutes.
Not much of a commitment, but certainly worth checking out if you like Wes
Anderson. If you don't like Wes Anderson, you know. And then of
course there's just cameos everywhere, and you have your Benedict cumber Patch and you're
sir Ben Kingsley, so definitely worth seeing on Netflix. I'm a big fan
of Wonder Snatch. Oh yeah, cumber Patch. This is cumber Patch being
cumber Patch. You know you got you want more cumber Patch. Henry Sugar
is wall to wall cumber Patch. Okay, you were. And then as
far as uh movies that we're anticipating, wish from Disney's coming out Napoleon,
you got to want to see that. Joaquin Phoenix, what else is coming
out? Captain America? Nobody cares? Am I right, nobody cares about
Captain America. I'm sure people do. It's just I think everybody has superhero
fatigue at this point. We want to see something quality that's not just like
Loki or one of the Disney Plus series. Give us something that makes it
so that we want to show up and make it more than just like the
post credit trailers or the post credit scenes. Please, yes, because that's
all really, that's what people are showing up now for, is just to
see what's going to happen in the post credit scenes. Yes, I am.
I am one of the people that wait around for them. So you're
anticipating a wrestling movie. Yeah, it was an a twenty four film.
I saw trailer four called The Iron Claw, and it's about the von Eric
family. If you know anything about you know, pro wrestling, the von
Erics are like the you know, first family of Texas wrestling, and they
are a huge deal in Texas and they almost I think all of the kids
died tragically within the family. It is, it is one of the most
heartbreaking stories when you just hear the reality of it all. I'm curious to
see how because this isn't a documentary, it's a scripted film. I'm curious
to see how much Yeah, yeah, I'm curious to see how much they're
going to be you know, how much is going to be dramatization and how
much of it's going to be the real deal stuff, Because like Carrie von
Eric, David van Eric, all of the von Eric brothers, they were
all some of the most physically gifted elite athletes out there. Without question,
they were you know, they were they were like all of them were alpha
male and all of them had such tragic ends. It it is I am
very curious to see how this film is made. Well, it looks like
you won't have to wait long. It looks like it's already shot and zac
Efron looks just like one of those von Erics, so that should be pretty
good. Oh yeah, okay, so we did that, and man,
Priscilla's doing well. I'm going to see that tonight. Let us now shift
gears a little bit and go to the the Uh okay, well, I'll
do a little bit on Las Vegas here. There's a Grand Prix going on
right there right now. Did you know that I heard the Grand Prix Formula
one driving through the streets. Yeah, I heard that, like within like
the first couple of laps or something. They had to shut it down because
somebody knocked over a manhole cover or something. Yeah, they ran over a
manhole cover and it wasn't secured right away and it flopped up and did like
eight million dollars worth of damage to that car and several million dollars. Do
you ever go to have your car in an accident and go get an estimate
and it's eight million dollars. That's enough to ruin your day. Well,
that's kind of what happened. And then the manhole I guess or the car
caused like, you know, twenty thirty million dollars with the damages to other
cars and things, and so they had to scale back things. So there
were people who paid fifty thousand dollars for their tickets that got to see eight
minutes of racing. Wow, and it was done. You're out of here.
So there's a class action lawsuit. Happened to thirty five just a little
over six thousand dollars per minute, six thousand dollars per minute. It is
more eight minutes fifty thousand dollars. Oh yeah for the ticket price. Yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right about that. I was thinking about
the damages, the damage. I mean eight million dollars. That's a million
dollars a minute, and damages for that one car. So they uh,
thirty five thousand people have filed the class action lawsuit to get their money back,
and I guess it ended up there ended up being a race with no
audience because they had to just do it when they're all gone and it's a
mess over there. They were calling it the biggest sports spectacle ever staged,
and it is popular. The only problem is this the hotel. What it
does to the to the hotel prices over there makes it unaffordable for anyone to
go. But the super elite, and I know that Formula one racing is
you know, for the super elite anyway, but there are you know,
there's regular people that really like it and they want to go, and you
know, and they might even be able to afford a ticket a few hundred
dollars. But then the hotel rooms are like when I checked, it's like
a place I usually stayed. So it's over one thousand dollars a night,
and you're not even on the track trying to get on the track. Well,
anyway, it's I hear they're going to keep going. But this was
very rough, a very rough start to the Formula one thing. And lawsuits,
Now, will people win these lawsuits? They might because these people were
arguably harmed. You pay fifty thousand dollars, you only get eight minutes.
You're looking for somebody to pay for that. And perhaps on the other side
of the ticket it said sometimes cars crash and the races are delayed. Will
that language hold up? And I'm sure the Formula one people are going to
be saying, hey, there, we had all kinds of waivers or clarifications
or I'm struggling with my English right now. But they told people I'm sure
anything can happen, and we're not responsible if there's crashes and stuff like that.
But maybe there'll be a settlement, maybe the court will say I got
to do something for these people. But Sam, how sorry do you feel
for somebody who paid fifty thousand dollars for a ticket throwing that kind of not
one bit? No, I'm not sorry at all that they can if they
can drop fifty k on a ticket, they can go ahead and try to
double it up and make a fifty thousand dollars bet at a table and see
if they can go ahead and win it back. I'm not gonna get I
mean, really, fifty thousand dollars for a ticket. Yeah, you know,
buy the ticket t D. Yeah, here's what I'm saying. Watch
it on ESPN. It was on regular ESPN. Take that fifty thousand dollars,
donate it to the poor, and go to heaven. That's a better
deal. Let us take the break and come back with more of Joe Scolante
Live from Hollywood. Joe Alone, here's my lawyer, Joe Escalante live from
Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank. Let's move to the celebrities behaving
badly, Sam Shalley, all Right, best time of the best time of
the show for me. Yeah, I mean this one is like, this
one's terrible. Did you hear about the lawsuit against Sean Puff Daddy Combs,
otherwise known as Diddy? No? What did he? What did did he
do? Well? There's a woman named Cassandra Ventura. She's an actress and
a singer, and she signed to P Diddy's label two thousand and five,
and the lawsuit alleged that Diddy brought the singer into his ostentatious, fast paced
and drug fueled lifestyle soon after she met him and signed to his label in
two thousand and five. She was nineteen and he was thirty seven. Think
about that, Sam, nineteen and thirty seven. That's a little inappropriate for
people to be getting intimate. Ventura is now thirty seven and Combs is now
fifty four. But they began, she says, they had a pattern of
abuse and they're on and off relationship, which began in two thousand and seven.
The lawsuit alleged that he was prone to uncontrollable urge savage beatings in which
he punched, kicked, and stomped her. Yeah, the allegens applied her
with drugs and forced her to have sex with other men while he pleasured himself
and filmed them. According to the lawsuit, Ventura was trying to end the
relationship in twenty eighteen because she did not like being punched, kicked, stomped,
and applied with drugs and forced to have sex with other men while he
pleasured himself and filmed them. And then Combs forced her into her Los Angeles
home at that time when she tried to get away from him and break it
off. She then he raped her. This is according to her state.
So she files a lawsuit against him. She just couldn't take it, okay,
Well, see, I mean I think she already broke off with him,
but then she at some point, you know, with the Me Too
movement, she felt empowered to come to go public with this. Now.
I don't know if you know anything about p Diddy, but he's you know,
one of the most influential hip hop guys. Him and Russell Simmons.
This also happened to the founder of bad Boy Records and a three time Grammy
winner. He's worked with a slew of top tier artists. I don't know
if you know this, Sam, the Notorious b I G Yes, Mary
J, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Faith Evans,
and crazy Town. I made up the crazy Town part. Okay Yeah.
This year he released his fifth studio album, the Love Album Off the Grid,
first studio album in seventeen years. This has got to put a damper
on that. So in last September, he was presented a key to the
City for New York by embattled Mayor Eric Adams. And he was born in
New York City and Ventura. She gained fame with a hit single called Me
and You, which was number one of the Bolt Billboard Hot R and B
in two thousand and six. Only if you remember that jam. But it
was their only studio album. But then as actor, she was on Fox's
Empire. So the lawyers for PDDY, they are saying that this woman had
for the past six months persistently demanded thirty million dollars while threatening to write a
damaging book about her relationship with Combs. And the lawyer said the demands were
rejected as blatant blackmail. So he but then some people say he offered eight
figures to silence her. What's eight figures is that like, six figures is
one hundred thousand, seven figures is is a million, and then eight figures
will be ten million at least. Well, Sam, what do you think
of this case? I can't have any opinion. I don't know enough of
the details. It sounds like, you know, it's a case from what
years ago? Yeah, twenty three? I mean these are always rough two
thousand and seven. Yeah, So it's it's hard to be able to say,
but I I know, obviously sympathies are always going to go with the
victim in this situation, but I'd like to hear more before, you know,
making judgments one way or the other. I felt the same until I
now have discovered the new the latest news, the latest news, ish p
Deeddy has settled with her and written her a check to make her go a
way. So well then, I mean, would you know? Yeah,
it's like, well, to me, it's like, if you are not
guilty, you're outraged by this and you're going to fight it. Yeah,
and you're and you're gonna and you're gonna clear your name and you're gonna get
out there because the bad news is already out there. They couldn't get any
worse. So you're going to go and even though your name is going to
be in the papers and they're going to go through your history, but you
are going to make sure everybody he knows this is a lie and they're not
allowed to bring other things in, you know, show a pattern. Usually
you can, if you have good lawyers, you can. You can you
can keep it to this specific these specific charges with this one woman. I
mean, sometimes you can do that. Sometimes you can't. So there's an
argument, maybe, well I don't want them to I don't want them to
find out find you know, other women that have made up this phony story.
So I'm going to settle with her. But I think the smart money
is that enough of this is true to where he did. He's paying her
to stop. And probably in that settlement is you cannot write that book.
This is enough money for you not to write that book. But uh,
yeah, anytime you see somebody settling that quickly without putting up a fight,
typically I'd be like, yeah, you did it, Yeah, that quickly.
That's the point that quickly he didn't like, uh you know, there
wasn't a long negotiation and try to get her down to a reasonable thing,
get her to calm down and then file some legal motions to let her know
that you might win. It's just like I am going to lose. So
I'm going to write you a check right now. Yeah, I'm going to
make this all disappear right now. Enjoy your thirty million dollars. Yes,
I think I think thirty million could be could be close to what she gone.
Maybe I guess twenty God I'm throwing out there because you said eight figures,
I'm guessing's she said for that. They did say she asked for thirty
million. That was her demand, according to them. Then I'd say that
that's what they settled down. If it happened that quickly, I don't think
that. You know, maybe maybe you can hack five million off of it.
So p Diddy Russell Simmons, I'm trying to think of the hip hop
bad boys that are the real bad boys. But this guy's a bad night.
Sug Knight's the real bad boy of all of them. Sug Knight is
a bad boy. I was always offended by this from hip hop because when
I was early punked in the eighties, the punk bands were not allowed to
play shows. The police said, you know, prevented you know, threatened
promoters if they put on these punk shows. It was a while where we
couldn't play, and it was really but these hip hop shows were going on
and they were nasty and people getting shot. But what are you gonna do?
I went to a lot of these hip hop shows. I like the
music, yeah, but then there were riots, and yeah, I stopped
going. Okay. In the other general news of the entertainment industry, Sam,
of cases we've been following, your friend and yours, ron Jeremy has
been released from prison. Uncle Ronnie is out. Yes, he's been released
to a private residence, less than a year after he was formally declared incompetent
to stand trial on more than thirty counts of sexual assault. If you see
the picture that's floating around of him, wow, does he look bad.
He's suffering from dementia. He's place undered his conservator earlier this year, and
he's been in the men's Central Jail in downtown LA. I don't know if
you've ever been there, Sam, but I understand it's not a nice place.
And he's been waiting for an assignment to a state medical facility. But
on Friday, a judge granted a request to release the seventy year old to
a private residence where he will receive around the clock medical care after it was
determined that no medical facility will take him, according to an email obtained by
the Los Angeles Times, so no place will take him, so someone probably
said I'll take him. So yeah, that is. I think we're about
done with this segment because I believe we're running up against the clock. Am
I wrong? No? And the music is going, so yeah, time
to roll. Yeah, Okay, didn't have time to talk about the washed
up torso found in the ocean, which is believed to be the body of
a famous Irish director, But we'll talk about that next week. And I'll
tell you what I thought of Priscilla and the other movies I see. And
I will now leave you with just the taste of the greatest song ever written.
Make sure you go and buy those Christmas show tickets because the Vandals Christmas
show tickets are on sale right now.