Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank, across the
street from a Wienerschnitzel that serves beer. This is the business end of show
business. We do it every Sunday right here on k EIB eleven fifty on
your AM dial. You can listen to the podcast version later on in the
evening if Sam is willing to make that happen. Can you hear me?
Sam? Everything good, loud and clear. How you doing? Ah?
Super? Thanks for asking. So we're uh. We had a lot like
last week, you know, kind of kind of dad in the in the
in the news department. We found some stuff. But this week things are
on fire man. Let's start with Let's start with Alec Baldwin. Alec Baldwin
is, as you know, just made some landmark WWE deal, Isn't that
right. I don't follow wrestling, so sometimes I get the but I know
you do so limited, very limited in my like, I kind of pay
attention. It's kind of fun, but at the same time, I'm like,
I really can't get too deep into it. I know Vince McMahon is
in a boatload of trouble right now, though, but that's another story.
Yeah, so he moves the show whatever the the the franchise called Raw Wa
r Aw, moves it to Netflix in a five billion dollar deal, and
right after that he gets sued by a woman for not just sexual harassment,
it's sexual assault and trafficking. Sam, Yeah, you don't want to be
sued for trafficking. That's a crime. So I don't know if there is
going to be criminal prosecution on this or an attempt, but I imagine they're
looking into it because you know, I mean not that sexual assault is in
the crime, but oftentimes maybe statutes of limitations or prevent prosecution or lack of
evidence. You need a jury of twelve people to prosecute someone for a crime,
but you only need, you know, majority of people in a jury
box to prosecute someone for a civil case. So, as you may remember,
the OJ Simpson trout couldn't get him on a crime, but they did
get him in the civil case where he was found liable for the deaths of
his wife and Katil Klin. I'm not kat o'kaal Kato Kalin is still living.
I apologize to Kato Kalin's family for suggesting that he might be that he
might be gone. But you know, I'm sure kat o'kalin' is just happy
somebody mentioned him. He might be. He might be kind of a fan.
I used to see him in church over there at Good Shepherd in Beverly
Hills every Sunday. He seemed like a devout believer and great hair. If
you go to church, God might grant you great hair and among other temporal
blessings worked for him. All right, Chewie, what are you doing,
Chewie? Are you just gonna crawl around under me? Okay, okay,
So Vince McMahon, it's it's he's the head of WWE and he's been I
don't know. I mean, this is a big deal, five billion,
but now he's now He had to resign the next day after the charges were
filed. So it's kind of weird he makes this big deal. I wonder
if it was just like doing He was doing everything he could to to get
the deal done before the uh. The details of this torrid sex trafficking allegations
that that he's received a It came from a former w w E staffer named
Janelle Grant, and she said that Vince McMahon sexually abused her and trafficked her
to others within the company. So he tried to turn her into the WWE
good time girl, as as they might say. And it seems like she,
you know, seems like she kind of went along with it for a
while and then then they tried to I think maybe she protested. It looks
like they gave they made a settlement with her, like you don't talk and
then I will If you don't talk, I will give you three million dollars.
So there's a non disclosure agreement as part of this scandal, and it
looks like he stopped paying her after a million and so she's now seeking to
avoid that agreement and suing for unspecified damages. But then there's this other thing
that came out. Are you familiar with the wrestler name brock Lesnar brock Lessner.
Yeah, he's not just a wrestler, he's an MMA fighter. He's,
as far as combat sports goes, probably the most recognizable name and face
in the business. Well did you know that she said he likes to It
gets really, it gets really gross. She's mentioned him. I've talked to
other people that said they don't know why McMahon spent some money much money on
this guy and let this guy hang around for so long and win and be
a big star. Because I talked to people and say they don't like him,
they just didn't understand it. Well, most people don't like him,
but he's a draw. He makes money. He puts butts in seats,
and that goes with mm A and WWE. Well it's also he's evidently,
according to this report, having sexual times with the same woman that McMahon was,
So they're kind of a a a threesome. I don't know, I
don't know, but I know that he is. That Lessener is married to
like one of the most famous WWE pin up women of all time, like
one of the more Yeah I guess show. She's she's gonna call it quits.
No, but these are just allegations. But in her complaint, she
says that McMahon allegedly gave Lessener Grant's cell phone number, and Lessener allegedly asked
her to send a video of herself urinating. Lessner, who is married as
you say to Sable, allegedly told Grant Janelle Grant, the complainant here,
he wanted to set a playdate in December of twenty twenty one, but a
snowstorm canceled plans, so she was told to go take care. According to
her a complaint and he's gone. He's got a lawsuit here. We don't
know if criminal charges will be filed, but if he's passing her around and
telling her that she has to have sex with people, if you know,
that's trafficking. So a lot more to come on this story, Sam,
your comment. Definitely wanting to wait and see how all of this develops.
With all of the smoke around Vince McMahon right now, as far as these
kinds of allegations, it doesn't surprise me coming off of or the news coming
when it did. The Royal Rumble big pay per view event just happened for
them yesterday, so there was a lot of attention trying to be drawn away
from Vince McMahon from the company just through the gigantic pay per view that they
had yesterday. At the same time, it's really hard to overshadow when the
owner of the company has these kinds of allegations against him. Pretty bad,
pretty bad, but they're just allegations at this time. But something kinky is
going on there, and you know, wrestling as kind of anything goes anyway,
So I think it would attract more of an anything goes type executive rather
than traditional sports like the NFL or baseball and basketball, not that they don't
have their share, but well, and a lot of it stems back to
I mean, Vince McMahon is a product of the late seventies early eighties wrestling
business, and they used to tour all around the country, just like bands
used to do. And there was a lot of that same kind of attitude
amongst the wrestlers and Vince McMahon. If you watch some of the documentaries there,
and you watch some of the stories about some of these wrestlers, none
of this stuff should be shocking anybody quite frankly. I did watch Iron Claw.
Yeah, great movie. Great movie. Yeah, great movie. And
then speaking of movies, I saw some movies. Let's shoow is it time
to take a break? Yeah, let's take a quick break and we'll come
back. Take a break, we'll come back and we'll talk about the movie
I saw a couple of nights ago, and what's going on the box office
on Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood, by Hollywood.
You mean Burbank, we are continuing through the Hollywood crap olam. Then
it happens during the week, and I say crap o. I mean that
in a good way. It's with love and affection. Yeah, all right,
So we're gonna leave our wrestling behind. Although you did tantalize me with
the plane ride from Hell that you told me about, so I think that's
something I'll be investigating this week. A seven fifty seven full of wrestlers and
unlimited alcohol. What year was that? Oh, it was somewhere sometime within
the last maybe twenty five years. I can't remember the exact year, but
you really narrow and narrowed it down there. Yeah, no, thank you.
I think it was within liken there, nineteen ninety seven. I'd say
between then in about two thousand and five, somewhere in that range. All
right, well, pretty interesting. Let's go to the box office. Sam
number one in the box office this week, the bee Keeper from MGM doing
a seven million. This is a slow time of year, so seven does
seven million, seven zero point four million at the box office. To add
to it's thirty five, so it's got a forty two million dollar gross.
It looks like the movie costs to me, I don't know. It cost
about thirty five million maybe, and it's making money and back up, I
mean shooting back up at number one. A lot of these movies seem to
be around now, seem to like just kind of toggle they're number one,
they're number three, they're number one. Wonka was number one like several times.
Mean Girls number two, so Beekeeper it's in its like second or third
week beats just shoots ahead of Mean Girls. I wonder what that means.
Be Girls isn't that good? The drop off? Isn't that bad for be
Girls though? Mean Girls? I me for Mean Girls. B Girls is
another good movie. Ye, Wonka's number three, Migration number four, anyone
but you? Number five, The Fighter, It's a movie we haven't talked
about, nor will we talk about. Is number Poor Things nominated for Academy
Awards, and is number seven. Number eight American Fiction also nominated for Academy
Awards. Number eight. Number nine is Aquaman in the Lost Kingdom nominated for
no Awards. And then we go to number ten Godzilla minus one actually from
Toho International, nominated for Academy Awards. Did you know that Sam I wouldn't
I'm not surprised by that. I saw it. It was amazing. It
deserves it. Yeah, let's see what was it? What do you get?
I think it was sound. Then it got nominated. But yeah,
after seven decades of snubs, Godzilla has his first Oscar nomination and you heard
it here first. This is a good movie. By the way, I
would love it. If it wins and Godzilla accepts the award, that would
just be amazing to me. I mean talking about that's what the Academy Awards
needs. It needs more Kaiju monsters. This so it's it's best visual effects
and great visual effects. They were alongside other nominees, The Creator, great
film that I saw, The Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three. Yeah,
it's you know, you expect that mission impossible, Dead Reckoning excellent, Napoleon,
Wow, very impressive of war scenes Napoleon and the blood and the violence
of war. I can't I couldn't say who's going to win this. I
couldn't say that's this is This is a hard one. Not that I'm in
the business of Oscar predictions, but I do have one Oscar prediction. Sam,
I'll be at the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Hell on
Oscar night? Really? Yeah? Any reason in particular? Is there like
a gathering or is it just you chilling and watching it. Just went to
the reservations page, said what about dinner on Oscar night? Thinking they're going
to laugh at me, and it just says, okay, mister Escalante,
you're in nice So see you guys there maybe, but right, I'll try
to show up. Yet it's apparently something you have to make reservations for.
Yeah, well, I mean but also after that, something he needs no
reservations is the Oscar party that will be having post oscars at the Wiener Schnitzel
across the street from our studio in Burbank. That's fair, and I got
to be the one that actually prep that whole thing. I got the pinata.
By the way, who are you wearing? I'm going to be wearing
me? I don't know who makes my clothes. I just go to H
and M and just get it from there. Well, it's better than Amazon
basics. I will I will be wearing a little bit of mys are wearing.
I will be wearing a little bit of the chili sauce at the winners
Knitzel, just saying probably, Okay. So this is so the movie I
saw this week is number fourteen. Uh, you know, not doing that
great. It's actually and actually doing really bad ISS International Space Station. So
I don't know why it's doing so crappy. But it's only got five million
at the box office. It dropped from number seven to number fourteen. Oh,
it lost fifty five percent of its screens. There's something going on in
Bleeker Street. Is the distributor. Maybe they're just lame, because that's a
really good movie. But it was pushed into like the tiniest theater at the
Bellata and Huntington where I saw it, and I was like, when they
said theater innumber five to your left, I'm like, well, you talking
about theater number five to my left. I know theaterre number five to my
left. That's all the way down the hallway. That's a ghetto and it's
a tiny theater. Meanwhile, people are watching mean Girls in XD Why do
we need that? Yeah, So, anyway, I really liked Is.
I heard bad things about it. In fact, one of the headlines and
one of the reviews was in space no one can hear you yawn. I
think that's a killer. So when people saw that headline, they just said,
I'm not going but I don't believe it. The best one that I
heard was the only thing that sucks more than the vacuum of space is what
happened inside the spaceship. That's not that good. I'm not whoever wrote that
is can't write a movie. I'll say that, but in space, no
one can hear you yawn. Pretty good. That's a good. Yeah.
But so I didn't fall for it though, because I go, you know
what, that's just too it's too good. So if someone thought about it,
if someone thought of that, they're not They're just going to change their
review to bad so they can use that headline. You know, you can't
waste that headline and say, like I was going to say this, but
it's actually good. No, you just got to go all in and say
this is a bad movie, but it's a good movie. And it's the
one where the space team, you know, you got the Russians and the
Americans are up in a space station and then they look out the window and
they see these fire things on Earth and at first they think it's a volcano,
but it's nuclear war. So they are given a This is not a
spoiler alert because it's in the trailer. They're given an order the English speaking
people take over the space station by any means necessary. So they do or
they try, and it's a lot of good space violence. Who doesn't like
space violence? It's on paper, it sounds great. Yeah, it's good.
It's good enough on paper. Look, look on paper. Sounds good.
And then you're waiting for it to suck because I heard the review and
it never stuck. It never sucks. It's just good. There is a
you know what I'm gonna I want to single out this this this woman for
Academy consideration. Okay, the star of this movie is a young African American.
First of all, second movie in a row, or like the lead
actresses of Black Lesbian that seems to be the new thing. This Black Lesbian
h was very very good compared to the Black Lesbian that was in The bee
Keeper. But isn't that strange the two movies in a row in the in
the Yeah, and you're liking to go I don't know that that's what it
is as I get it, but still let's go to break. Okay,
when we oh Ariana do Boas gives her name amazing actress, so just really
good. It's just like, Wow, you're really good in this movie.
It's hard to act in the spaceship. So she carried the movie. And
I recommend miss International Space Station back after this traffic stuff and everything else.
Joe Escalante here live from Hollywood every Sunday, Sunday night, five to seven
pm. Right here eleven fifty on your AM dial KiB or you can listen
to it live worldwide on the iHeart Radio app, and then the podcast on
any podcast app. So there's no excuses unless you just find it slow.
But you know, we're doing our best. I've been doing this for eighteen
years now. There's like eighteen hundred podcasts that kind of do the same thing
that I do. But when I did it, when I started, people
thought it was crazy, Sam. They thought there's no way this can work.
Maybe they were right. Hey, what's what's the most anticipated movies coming
up? Our Gyle? There's a lot of bush behind behind our Gyle.
Such a great name for a movie because then you have like argyle marketing patterns
and you can get a lot of name recognition. Madam Webb, no thanks,
it's a lady superhero, Lisa Frankenstein. Maybe a lady monster. I
don't know. Maybe Dune part two. That's going to be rough, Dune
Part two, Dune Part one, it's a sleeper. Bob Marley one Love.
I'm waiting for that. I want to see that. That one looks
great. Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. Some of these biopics are
pretty stupid. Right now, I'm dealing with the biopick for Sublime, which
will be shot in the summer from director Francis Lewis of Hunger Games fame and
just got another script rewrite. Will you have any say on whether or not
this biopick sucks? Yes? Okay, good because of the fact that I
think there's less expectation. Bob Marley is a god, you know, and
Sublime is a band of three super cool guys that you know, kind of
created a whole genre, and it's kind of weird and kind of funny,
and it's Southern California. I think it'll be fun. I think there's a
lot at stake on the Bob Marley one, and just seems like maybe too
many cooks. That's what ruins movies, Sam, too many cooks. I
could see that being a problem. Yeah, so, but you know,
I'll keep you posted on the supply more. It's it's fun, fun process.
Okay, Why am I working on it? I'm the manager of the
band. The manager of the band, or the manager of the writer or
whatever ends up as an executive producer quite often in movies. But I just
took over the management of this, of all these this stuff. So there's
already other people that were assigned to be of executive producers before I got on
board, Like they're gone. They have nothing to do to the movie anymore
because they got fired or they whatever. But and I'm now in that role.
But I won't get a credit because I didn't make a deal for a
credit. But I don't care, you know me, Sam, I'm not
in it for the awards, am I? No? Never not award.
You are not in this for any recognition whatsoever. No, I'm in it
for the good of humanity and getting a good table during Oscar night at the
Polo Lounge. Okay, So big news this week, Sam, Alec Baldwin.
That was was kind of my last week last week. With some developments
this week. Alec Baldwin indicted by the Texas authorities for the criminal charge of
manslaughter. What do you think of that, Sam, I thought this whole
thing went away, But I guess it's not going to and people are just
gonna keep going after him for whatever they feel like he did. And if
he I mean a lot of things went wrong with that. And if they
do find evidence that they can bring to court and hold him liable for or
hold him criminally accountable for, then there we go. Well said Sam,
Yeah, this is of course for the people that don't remember. Howlena Hutchins
was the cinematographer on the set when Alec Baldwin was handed a gun for a
scene and the gun went off. He says he didn't pull the trigger.
They say he did. So that's what that's kind of what the case is
about. Did you pull the trigger and were you Did you intend to pull
the trigger? Did you to get manslaughter? You don't have to find intent.
If it's like a negligent manslaughter, you just had a reckless disregard,
you know, go hey, here's a gun. Wooh, I pointed at
you. Whoooooo. Then you have some kind of manslaughter. And is it
really the prosecutors that that are that are trying to like put him in jail
to teach him a lesson. Now, maybe, but also the family is
like, you got to get this guy, you got to get this guy.
He killed he killed our daughter, or he killed our wife, or
he killed our mom or whatever. So there's pressure like that on them,
I would imagine. But it doesn't seem like a very good case because there
is a an armorer that is charged with making sure he's handed a gun that
has blanks in it, so it's not even his job. As is pointed
out this week, here's the news they got developed. Sag Aftra sent out
a letter defending Alec Baldwin like a good guild protecting one of its members,
a fellow actor, and just said, hey, look, we can't have
actors get in charge from manslaughter when they're firing guns and movies, because they
are supposed to concentrate on acting, not checking to whether bullets in the gun
are dummy bullets or real bullets. How would he ever know? You could
you know? How would he ever know? There's only one way to know,
and that's a pull the trigger. Now, maybe he made some mistakes,
you know, and didn't follow protocols, but to throw them in jail.
You know, the Screen Actors Guild says, no way, you can't
do. We can't have a precedent like that for our actors. So they
are sticking up for him. And Hannah Gutiera's Read is the villain here because
she was the film's armorer. She's the one who mistakedly loaded the gun with
the live round. Her trial starts next month. That will be interesting,
Sam, don't you agree? Oh yeah, this whole thing is very fascinating.
It's also morbid, and I'm trying to not get myself too invested into
it just because of how dark it is. You should get invested in it,
that's my advice to you. The Hannah Gutierras Read faces involuntary manslaughter charges
and evidence tampering because so that's kind of I mean's she's going to go down
for all this, I would say, But Alec Baldon, I think some
of it might be political. Would you agree. You've got a very outspoken,
hyper charge political activists like Alec Baldwin, and he probably makes people in
Texas crazy, and now they got him, Sam, it could be it
may have an element of political swing to it, just but at this time
just because it's in Texas. And at the same time, you would think
that there would be equal application of the law for everybody. And if they're
only going after him just because they didn't like his portrayal of Donald Trump on
Saturday Night Live, that's pretty messed up. Well, this is the world
we live in, Sam. They're going to get him and New York is
going to get Trump. And this is what they do. Is that the
trade? I think it's a trade. If you get Trump, we're gonna
we're taking down Alec Baldwin. Yeah, I think that's that's the trade.
Now, it's just you know, Alec Baldwin for Donald Trump, Texas New
York, you know, and throwing a couple of draft picks exactly and a
player to be named later. Yeah, just kind of have an understanding that
people who disagree with you politically might those beliefs that those other people have might
be might be like sincere beliefs that are just sincerely held beliefs. And they
have theirs and you have yours, and we all are Americans and we don't
have to call other people with different political beliefs, you know, Hillbillies or
communists or whatever you're calling them and all that kind of stuff. So I
think that's the lesson. Just kind of allow yourself to recognize that people who
disagree with you have sincerely held beliefs and they're allowed to and then you'll be
a happier person. You won't you won't get into trouble like this. Let's
take a break, check the traffic, and come back with more. Joe
Ascalante Live from Hollywood. Joe as Kolante. He's my lawyer. He don't
want money. He does it all for you and he knows auditor in the
Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you made burn Bank. Steve
Jones there Sam doing the Joe's Galante song, killing it every time. The
legendary Steve Jones. You got to add that to it. Legendary Steve Jones
from the Sex Pistols. I heard he's putting that song in his live set.
Now that's great, well, because you know everybody in the audience at
some point is going to need a lawyer, so he might as well just
give you that free right. And and uh, I think it's his second
encore that he comes out with that one, and that you know, it
keeps people you know they got he's got to come back. He's got to
play the Joe Ascalante song. That's when the light I did come out.
I'm telling you the lighters come out for that song, The lighters, Right,
that's a lighter song. Oh absolutely right about that. Uh. The
I went to see Steve, not Steve Jones, but Glenn Mattlock at the
Roxy last Sunday. He is the bass player that played and wrote songs and
the sex Pistols before, said Vicious. So said Vicious was the guy like
you know when he came He's like a cartoon character. And I'm like,
I love Sid Vicious. Didn't know Steve Jones did a Glenn Mattlock existed.
I just but then I did see his name in the as a writer on
the never Mind the Bollocks album, and he is Hey's got a film based
on his book I Was a Teenage sex Pistol, which I think is the
greatest title of a movie in decades. That is a solid title. You
got to make that movie. I Was a Teenage sex Pistol. So featuring
executive producer Joe is Goal on today. Yes, it's true, it's true.
Dreams come true. I just won sex pistols writing a song about me.
Sam, and the other one's hiring me to executive produce their life story
and documentary form. What a magical life I'm living and I want to share
it with all of you people. It is really it is magical. I'm
getting the second hand magic at this point. Okay, I don't want to.
I don't want to pile on and brag about how magical. But as
you know, my birthday's coming up on Tuesday, and I do my little
thing on. I have a little routine I do on my birthday. But
then my wife got me an excellent gift, which was two tickets to see
the Harlem Globetrotters take on the General. Yes, I go there almost every
year. I love watching the Harlem Globetrotters. Okay, well I'm gonna I'm
about to blo o your mind, Sam and everybody listening. Okay, so
every year we kind of go. Okay, I got to do it because
I remember they always come around Los Angeles or around January thirtieth, which is
my birthday, So my parents would take me to see them for my birthday.
And that was just a great birthday present and outing and it was a
tradition, and then you know, you lose track. I think I interviewed
him once when I was at Indy one to three to one. That was
fun, But then you just lose track of the whole thing, the whole
routine. And then so you know, like fifty years later, I tell
my wife, I go, hey, we got to see the globecharters on
my birthday. So I look, I look, and then I've tried to
make it work. It hasn't worked for a few years. And then today
I made it work, or yesterday I made it work. And we're going
to go see them at Ontario at the Toyota Center. That's where I saw
Morrissey, by the way, where he did not walk off stage and he
played a full set. And so they're playing the Generals. What is it
the Washington Generals or whatever. Yeah, okay, so they're playing the Generals
and okay, so I'm like, well, we got to get good seats
now that I'm filthy rich, we got to So I look and see at
the Crypto Arena there's no good seats left. So I go to Ontario.
Look, we see what we can find over here. You know what they
have Sam what's that. They have seats number one and two on the General's
bench available. Yes, you're going to get the jersey. I'm telling you,
they're going to put you in the game. I better I better start
training. It's February nineteenth at the Toyota Arena whatever they call that out out
in Ontario. You're going to start getting that cardioing gear. Man, this
is going to be good. So it's called the General's Experience and it's a
special ticket and a special whole special evening and you sit on the General's bench
and it's, uh, you're there. I think I hope I'm in the
huddles at least so and if I can call some plays because I know how
to get around some of these uh hot dogging things that that the that the
Globetrotters have been getting away with for far too long. And I think I
think I can help the generals. That would be awesome. So anyway,
that's so my February looks like. That's really cool. I knew you'd appreciate.
Ah, dude, I'm a big Globe Trotters fan. I love them.
That's awesome. Just spoiling myself, you know. Okay, So we've
still got a few a few stories to cover. Uh let's see. And
tickets still on sale for the Globetrotters at the Toyota Arena too, So yeah,
I mean you got to go. And then they're also a crypto and
stuff like that. Okay, uh okay, here's what I wanted to tell
you about poor Alec Baldwin. I mean, it's really bad for him because
then they're they're reporting that he is kind of just working his ass off doing
like conventions and selling his home and making all these low budget movies just just
because he needs the money because he's screwed. And the legal bills are real,
that's a real thing. Legal bills for something like this that's going to
run into the tens of millions. Because when you have a case like this,
you don't have one like you get the best you can get. And
maybe it's a seventeen hundred dollars an hour attorney, maybe it's a two thousand
dollars attorney hour attorney. I don't know, you know, maybe it's just
just say fifteen hundred, but it's not just one. You got two or
three of them working at the same time. Now you're paying thirty five hundred
dollars an hour, and it just keeps adding up and adding up and adding
up. So selling his house just dropped the price of his Hampton's home ten
million under the previous acting asking price. So he must really need that money.
And it was sad. He he made a video commercial for his house,
and it was just like telling people how much he loved that, how
much time he spent in the Hampton's, you know, since he was young,
and then he got this house, that house. Now he's got this
big house, and now he's got to sell it. So even though he's
kind of a bombasta gay hole at times, I really feel that for him.
Let's pray for Alec Baldwin, everybody, Okay, he needs it.
Let's go to the intellectual property portion of the show, Sam, I haven't
seen any major meltdowns of the world now that Mickey Mouse is in the public
domain. From the Steamboat Willie, I did make a vandal Steamboat Willie shirt,
you know, not like a horror one, like the horror movie that's
going to be terrible that someone's making, or like Hitler mustache on him or
something like that. I just made a vandal's Steamboat Willy shirt and Sam it
sold faster than any shirt in Vandal's history. That's not surprising and awesome all
at once. So if you go to vandals dot com, you'll see it.
It'll pop right up. You can get one for yourself. And people
are starting to talk about what happens when Superman and Batman are going to public.
Don't mean in like like thirteen years or something like that, but that
assumes that Warner Brothers will be around in thirteen years, So sure if we
have to worry about that. But another IP situation going on right now is
disney Land and Universal Studios are you know, they've got all this weird stuff
going on. Where before Marvel was owned by Disney, they had licensed a
bunch of stuff to Universal for their theme parks, and that stuff is like
perpetuity deals. But then there are deals like from The Simpsons that were licensed
before Disney owned the Simpsons. That deal expires in twenty twenty eight, and
people are speculating that they're going to shut down that Simpsons ride and that Disney
is going to take it in Florida. I don't think much will change,
and that's my prediction. It won't change in Los Angeles because I don't think
Disneyland they don't have any room for the Simpsons and it doesn't fit the brand.
But in the studio's part of Disney World and Florida, come on,
you know, it's a different world over there. They might put the Simpsons
over there, so it might move. What do you think I think that
will happen. That would be interesting. It's considering how much of a feature
the Simpsons is within Universal Studio. It's going to be interesting to see how
that boils out. Yeah, I think it'll stay here. But there's all
the rumors going around that they're not hiring people for that ride, they're not
updating it in Florida, and those are just rumors, but people are all
the murmuring is going on that Simpsons may leave Florida. I think we're out
of time, Am I correct? Yep? I just started the music,
so that's perfect timing. All right, Let's see what else? Oh?
Yeah, I got the sweet Inton Hooligans playing at the Tearground Ballroom this Saturday
because Morrissey canceled his shows for this weekend. So if you want to see
the full Morrissey Smith's set, go to the Tearground Ballroom in Los Angeles on
February. This sad, whatever, whatever, this Saturday is. I don't
know the day, but I'll be there and I would leave you now with
just the taste of the greatest song ever written.