WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:16.399 Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, across the 2 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:21.320 street from a Wienerschnitsel. It serves beer. And we are talking about the 3 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:27.280 business of show business like we do every week here on KiB eleven fifty on 4 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:32.039 your AM dial. Get the podcasts later in the day listening, listen to 5 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:39.439 them wherever. But let's get to the movie. Sam, h biggest movie. 6 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:44.840 Well last weekend. We weren't live last weekend, but I saw two 7 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:50.679 movies last weekend. I know you saw a movie and but very exciting movie 8 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:55.439 times. Right now, let's go to the top ten. Number one still 9 00:00:55.560 --> 00:01:03.000 Barbie holding on to a spectacular ninety three million dollars in second weekend. It 10 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:07.560 will be the seventh biggest second weekend for a movie in history. Sam, 11 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:11.560 Wow, what was number one? Well, just this one's just a shade 12 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:19.120 of head of Mario Brothers, which did ninety two million. What's number one 13 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:22.040 in the second weekend? I don't know, I just come up with that 14 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:27.000 stat. Well, it's obviously just living above a movie theater. I can 15 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:32.439 definitely tell you that the traffic is still there and everybody's wearing pink, So 16 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:37.400 I'm assuming everybody's there to see the Barbie movie. Still the lady the canter 17 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:42.480 at my church this morning was wearing pink as soon as she steps up to 18 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:45.719 the ambo. My wife and I look at each other and just went, 19 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:52.400 she saw Barbie this week. And then the Oppenheimer still doing, Well, 20 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:57.840 that's the one I saw. Okay, so you saw Oppenheimer. Yeah, 21 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:02.239 I saw Oppenheimer. You chose to see Oppenheimer, not Barbie. Let's go 22 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:06.159 let's let's talk about that. But let me let me go over the top 23 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:09.680 ten just a little bit, because people just have to know what the top 24 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:16.080 ten is. I mean, number one is Barbie, as we said, 25 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:24.599 Number two Oppenheimer, Number three Haunted Mansion, which I will see after we 26 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:30.400 sign off today on the program. Number four Sound of Freedom. Sound of 27 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:35.759 Freedom has done a four hundred and forty eight total gross one hundred and forty 28 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.479 eight million. Mission Impossible has only done one hundred and thirty nine, which 29 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:46.000 is number four. Talked to me from a twenty four did ten million. 30 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:51.680 That's new this weekend. Indiana Jones is one sixty seven Elemental one forty four 31 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:59.919 million total, and Insidious The Red Door seventy eight million total Spider Man Across 32 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:06.120 Spider Verse three hundred and seventy eight million dollars. But let's stop. Let's 33 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:10.400 let's take a brief look at Sound of Freedom. I think it will drop 34 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.800 off. I mean, it's added a bunch of more theaters. It's just 35 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:19.199 everywhere now. They added one hundred and twenty six theaters and they dropped thirty 36 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:28.159 seven percent. But that is the movie about the sex trafficking bust in Columbia 37 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:31.599 where this guy set up a sting, set up a fake pedo island, 38 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:37.520 and busted a bunch of pedophiles, and they made a movie about him, 39 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:39.599 and you know, all that stuff. A lot of controversy. People say 40 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:45.479 that if you see that movie or some kind of quan on nutcase. But 41 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:50.080 you know, if you're a pedophile, you don't want people to see that 42 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.599 film either. I've been hearing rumors that it's getting astroturfed. A lot of 43 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:57.800 the people are buying out tickets for the theaters and selling them out, but 44 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:03.439 nobody's there. Could it could happen, could happen? People could be um 45 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:11.919 just trying to support the idea of these two Christians, and these are hardcore 46 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:19.759 Christians. Eduardo Vedastigi and Jim Caviesel. These are conservatives politically there, you 47 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:25.800 know, lightning rods for controversy. Some people wanted. There's two things. 48 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:31.040 We're hearing. Screenings are being disrupted. They're turning the lights on, they're 49 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:34.519 turning the air conditioning off. They're trying to keep people from seeing these movies. 50 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:38.839 And now we're hearing, well, some people are buying up the whole 51 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:45.079 theater and no one's even there, indicating it's not really that popular, and 52 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:53.680 pedophiles islands are not really that bad. I guess, so, h if 53 00:04:53.759 --> 00:05:00.079 you support this movie, it is one way to reduce sex trafficking. And 54 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.279 I think the reason why people don't like it because not in the movie, 55 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:08.040 but in the after, after, after, after the movie, trying to 56 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:10.399 solve the problem, you go, well, you got to close that border. 57 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:12.800 One thing you know you could do. You got to close that border, 58 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.160 the southern border to the United States. If you want to solve this 59 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:19.600 problem, close that border. And that is controversial. Now that be now 60 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:25.959 now it's become a political thing after you say that. So um, yeah, 61 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:30.759 so you're gonna have people on both sides now speaking of both sides of 62 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.680 a pedophile argument or a thing before we get to the movie. Well, 63 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:39.519 I'll talk about that, and that remind me of a similar story in the 64 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:42.360 music business when we get done with this. So you saw Oppenheimer, What 65 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:46.319 did you think. I was underwhelmed. I thought it was I thought it 66 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.720 was nice that it was the only movie that I've ever seen that was three 67 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:54.879 hours long that moved. It was. It didn't have a moment where it 68 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.199 felt like it was there was a lull. It was it's coming at you. 69 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.120 Yeah, it was constantly in motion and then it was moving along, 70 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:06.480 so it was entertaining. I was just expecting less fluff and more just you 71 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:13.600 know, more concrete stuff, and there it was very much. It was 72 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:15.800 very much. I had a lot of accuracy, and it was, you 73 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.759 know, true to a lot of the stuff. But it felt more like 74 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:24.680 the Elvis movie did in relation to Elvis's real life, and like then it 75 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.439 did to actually Oppenheimer's real life. If they went with Oppenheimer's real life, 76 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:32.319 I get the feeling it would be a really boring movie. Yes, um, 77 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:36.120 although I guess he was a sex maniac, but um uh oh, 78 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:39.600 they made life. They made note of that in the movie for sure. 79 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:42.519 Yeah, so you know, if real life could have been even more exciting, 80 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:46.920 I guess. But it's funny you mentioned Elvis because I was explaining the 81 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.639 movie to a friend of mine at the Dodger game on Friday night. You 82 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:57.759 might have seen me on the screen the he was. I was trying to 83 00:06:57.759 --> 00:06:59.680 explain it to him, and then so, yeah, yeah, like you 84 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.240 should see it. Then I remembered he was the guy who I recommended, 85 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.800 yeah, go see Elvis, you'll love it, and he hated it, 86 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:09.199 m okay. And then so I pulled back and I said, you know 87 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.279 what, this movie was a lot like the Elvis movie, and it's just 88 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:17.319 Oppenheimer Elvis, and you might not like it. So I retracted my recommendation 89 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:21.040 for him to see it. Then you're the only other person I've I've heard 90 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:27.240 of that brought up Elvis in this for this movie. One thing I learned 91 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:30.040 about before I saw the movie is, or after I saw the movie, 92 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:35.439 or during that, there are very few true Imax seventy millimeter screens. Yeah, 93 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:39.839 yeah, it's a very but there happened to be one at my hotel 94 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:44.480 at the Palms. I was doing the tours of the Punk Rock Museum last 95 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:47.439 weekend and so you know that's in the day. So I got tickets for 96 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:54.240 Sunday night and they got a seventy millimeter Imax screen right in my hotel only 97 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:58.360 in Vegas. So that's like where you live, you live on top of 98 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:01.279 a movie theater. I was living on top of a movie theater for five 99 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.920 days, but there was a seventy millimeter Imax downstairs. Yeah, that makes 100 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:09.680 a difference. I saw it was fun. Yeah, I saw that they 101 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:15.199 were doing seventy seventy millimeter screenings of it, and I when I saw that 102 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:18.639 there they had the Imax seventy millimeter, I'm like, I gotta find a 103 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:22.000 screen that has that, because really, that is the kind of movie that 104 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:24.800 you want to see on a big screen. Watching it on a small screen 105 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:30.000 will never do it justice. The Brendan Theater in the in the Palms Hotel 106 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:35.840 in Las Vegas so nice and there's very few seats because it is a luxury 107 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.200 theater, like you're you're you're far away from people and the aisles are really 108 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:45.200 wide. Very interesting. Um. It was closed for a while until the 109 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:50.720 Yamava sem Manuel Indian tribe bought the the hotel. But wow, what a 110 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:56.679 place to see it, and I enjoyed it, but yeah, it was 111 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:01.159 a little like, um, just coming at me so much stuff, and 112 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:07.080 some people the criticism also is, you know, there's no they left out 113 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:13.279 a lot of the didn't show. They didn't show, you know, Hiroshima 114 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:18.799 and Nagasaki get obliterated like in a in a in a human way. They 115 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:24.159 didn't show how many you know, it didn't generally hammer home how many people 116 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:26.519 died, although they didn't hide it, but they didn't. Some people were 117 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:31.480 wanting more of that, more battle, or maybe even more talk about like 118 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.039 I kind of want a little talk about Well, to me, the story 119 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.480 is not complete unless you talk about how many people get killed in these Japanese 120 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.320 firebomb things they were doing where they would set whole cities on fire, and 121 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:48.720 hundreds of thousands of people were dying that way. And so the argument that 122 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:52.639 oh, well this bomb saved lives, um, you know, I'm not 123 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:56.080 sure if I believe it. It's it's something that will be debated throughout history, 124 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.519 but you know, I'm not I could have used a little more of 125 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.919 that. But then again, it's a movie about Oppenheimer, so it's it's 126 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:11.679 it's not called uh, you know world War two nuclear theories. It's Oppenheimer 127 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:16.799 movie about him so great. I know, I know plenty about him. 128 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:20.799 Florence Pugh always great in the movies. Sam, how much time do we 129 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.639 have. Let's take a break. Okay, when we come back, I 130 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:28.759 will tell you what one of our listeners said to me about Florence Pugh. 131 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.159 Some of you listeners went to my punk rock tours. Thank you next time, 132 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:37.159 I'll expect more of you. Joe Sclante live from Hollywood, back after 133 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:43.679 the traffic. Joe west Bolante Live from Hollywood. If Hollywood, I mean 134 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:48.519 Burbang. Two hours in the business end of show Business, we were talking 135 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:54.759 about Oppenheimer. Sam, you saw it. I thought Florence pu Okay, 136 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:58.879 here's what I was gonna say. One of the one of the people might 137 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:01.320 where as I do these tours, two tours a day at the Punk Rock 138 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.799 Museum for four days. One of the tours, we have a one of 139 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.360 our listeners. Her name was Valerie, and she was very upset that I 140 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.000 talk about Florence Pugh so much. She said she feels sorry for missus Escalante 141 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:20.240 because I'm always talking about the delights of Florence Pugh. On the screen. 142 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.519 But you know, what are you gonna do? Is a movie star? 143 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:26.440 You know, I know that in real life she doesn't look as half as 144 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:31.480 hot as my wife because they're putting makeup on her and stuff like that. 145 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.480 But you know, what are you gonna do? What's my wife doing while 146 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:39.559 she was watching Ryan Gosling? If my wife had a radio show, would 147 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.200 be nothing button Ryan Gosling. In fact, the show would probably be called 148 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.639 Ryan Gosling. So but my apologies to listeners who I am offending with my 149 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:52.960 Florence Pugh talk. Um. Okay, so you didn't see Barbie, No, 150 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.039 but I'm gonna see it this week for sure. Well, I saw 151 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:03.159 Barbie also at the Brendon Theater at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, and 152 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.720 I saw it on a big screen whatever big the non imax, but fancy 153 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:16.440 bigger screen there they had that that was also delightful, funny, And criticism 154 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.000 of that movie is like it gets a little weird. Well there's the woke 155 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.120 criticism. Everybody, Oh, this is a woke movie. I think you're 156 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:26.879 really short changing yourself if you describe this as a woke movie and you're and 157 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:33.440 you're going to base your decision on seeing it before that for that reason. 158 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:39.720 First of all, this is Hollywood, Okay, all movies are woke to 159 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:45.039 some degree or another, you know, going back to since like I think 160 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:50.720 Apocalypse now is the last big movie that wasn't woke. Probably, Um I'm 161 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.000 just making up these these stats. I don't really know, but I just 162 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:58.480 threw that out there. Um now, Barbie, Yeah, who cares? 163 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.960 Woke? Woke? That put your mind in that world? Is it funny? 164 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.679 Are you watching funny things? Are they they're they're making the criticism is 165 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:11.480 these um sometimes people said it was anti man or the the these the rants 166 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:16.720 that were being made by the star um or the one of the stars, 167 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:22.240 America Ferrera. Uh you know what these are. It's like, you know, 168 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:26.600 it's a woman power movie, but it doesn't. It's not black and 169 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.840 white. It just asked to me, that's what it's asking questions about what 170 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:35.240 it is to be a woman, how hard it is. And then they 171 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:39.399 go they get in the you know, the conflict between being beautiful and being 172 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:41.600 uh you know, empowered or whatever. I think that's interesting, so let's 173 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:48.159 have that debate. But then they get they started going well. Then then 174 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:50.120 then then as the plot goes on, they gotta you know, they gotta 175 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:54.360 overcome some hurdles, you know, like story structure stuff, and they go, 176 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.080 well, here's here's where, here's our problem, here's how we're gonna 177 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.759 fix it. It got really confusing, Sam, like you're like, what, 178 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:03.240 wait, what are they going to do? How's that going to fix 179 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:07.519 things? And so hard to follow at times, but it's still fun. 180 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:13.799 Who I mean, I don't follow every movie perfectly. I mean, try 181 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.440 following any Christopher Nolan film, but I would say Barbie was almost as hard 182 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:22.480 to follow as Oppenheimer at times. But then you know, and then and 183 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:24.240 then they wrapped it up and you think, how are they going to wrap 184 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:26.960 it up? And they wrap it up and you're like, you're you're satisfied, 185 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:31.320 you're laughing. The criticism for my wife was not enough ken and not 186 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:39.440 enough song and dance. Uh you know, flowery productions with all the because 187 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.559 there's a few dances and she wanted more to that. Uh, I get 188 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:48.840 it. Um, So I'll see Hannah Mansion tonight looks funny. I'm hearing 189 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.120 mixed stuff like, hey, it's okay, but the trailer's cool. Every 190 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:58.360 single employee at Disneyland has seen it. They have screenings for them, and 191 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:01.519 I feel a little left out. You should be able to wiggle your way 192 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.679 into one of those screenings. I can't see why not I should. I 193 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:11.879 wiggled my way into the employee former employee Facebook page like cast member former cast 194 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:20.320 member. Okay, due to my stint at the Disneyland Hotel selling nutt and 195 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:26.600 boatman I made out of iron when I was ten years old, Sam, 196 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:33.639 Wow at a job. It's my first job, Disneyland Hotel And explain that 197 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:37.279 to the people to Facebook and they go, Okay, you're in. None 198 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:41.240 of the kids in my recess the next day would really believe that I worked 199 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:43.399 at Disneyland, because that's what I would say, I ok at Disneyland Hotel 200 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:48.720 and they didn't believe me. But I was really tired at school because it 201 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:52.559 was it went to eleven. It's like from like six to eleven Monday through 202 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:56.000 Friday. And my teachers would go, why so tired? I go, 203 00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:00.279 I worked till eleven and I'm ten. It's going strong at this kid, 204 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:07.000 what are you reading Deliverance? Give me that typical day at my Rush Elementary 205 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.360 school? Okay, um, so what movies are people talking about. It's 206 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:17.039 kind of like it's almost over, except for the summer's over for blockbusters other 207 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:22.159 than Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles, Mutant Mayhem, and Mega Ladon two. 208 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.519 And that's it. Who kept Blue Beetle? Sam? What are you buying 209 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:33.159 into the Blue Beetle? No? The trailers look nice, but I'm DC 210 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.120 has to give me something that doesn't suck before I'm going to waste money, 211 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.159 right, I'm with you? And yeah, beyond that, almost time for 212 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:49.440 a Blue Beetle. Yeah, yeah, Disney snow White looks dreadful. Um, 213 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:55.840 so we'll see, all right. I did see another moving but it 214 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.080 was a movie, but it was on It was on streaming that counts. 215 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:04.359 It was on Netflix. It was The Clone Tyrone with Jamie Fox and John 216 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:11.000 Boyega. That sounds fun. It was really fun. It was a really 217 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:14.079 entertaining movie. I enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun watch and 218 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:18.880 get Rotten Tomatoes. People love it. It's scoring super high on Rotten Tomatoes. 219 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:22.000 Entertaining movie and that's free if you've got Netflix. Yep. Right, 220 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.680 Therefore, you came out last week and highly recommend it. Very fun movie. 221 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.559 A Clone Tyrone you heard it from Sam Okay. I want to get 222 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.200 to my stories. There's a TV story in a legal story, because this 223 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:38.000 is ostensibly illegal show kind of in a way. Chuck Norris has just settled 224 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:42.920 a thirty million dollars suit against CBS and Sony over Walker Texas Ranger profits. 225 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:47.240 Usually I don't do stories about profits because it involves a lot of math and 226 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:52.319 people don't understand it on the radio. But basically, I'll break it down. 227 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:56.920 He has twenty three percent share of all profits from that series. How 228 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.039 did you get that twenty three percent? Sam? How do you think he 229 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.920 got them? He threatened to do a roundhouse kick to their face if they 230 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.720 didn't. No, I gave it to him. You get them the roundhouse 231 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:10.400 kick. Now, I back in the nineties, I made this deal. 232 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:18.039 I I constructed the profit definition that Chuck Norris is suing under, and I 233 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:22.440 gave him his twenty three percent. After some negotiations, he wanted more and 234 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:26.359 he ends up with twenty three percent. But what and so what they do 235 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:32.559 is they'll add so many fees and costs of distribution that you get see statements 236 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:36.680 and there's nothing on them. And then you got to sue to have a 237 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:38.160 judge look at him, go, what you guys are nuts? This This 238 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:41.519 is not fair. It's not what he bargained for. So he already did 239 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:45.880 that. Now he's anyone, and now he's suing Forum that they're they're putting 240 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:51.200 it on like a subscription video on demand channels and and they're saying that that 241 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:55.240 doesn't count or something, and they're not and they're trying to not give him 242 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.000 his preferit. So he went back. This is what people have to do 243 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:04.160 in TV. He went back and sue and he got his money from uh, 244 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:08.119 the series, but you know, the series generated six hundred ninety two 245 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:14.839 million dollars in revenue, so far he wants his can't say I hate him 246 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:18.400 for it. Yah, you know what I mean? You gotta pay the 247 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.000 man. Yeah, and I'm serious. He the dude doesn't do push ups. 248 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.519 He pushes earth down. You don't want to mess with Chuck Norris. 249 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:27.880 You do not want to mess with Chuck Norris. I heard that. And 250 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:32.119 uh, if you I've probably talked about this before. If you watch the 251 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.680 reruns of Whatker Texas Ranger, you're gonna hear Chuck Norris sing his own theme 252 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:40.400 song. And that was at my at my urging, because he sent me 253 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:44.960 to take a cassette of a song that someone had written at the end of 254 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:48.599 season one or during season one about called the Eyes of a Ranger, and 255 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:49.799 he goes, what do you think of this, Joe? What do you 256 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:52.279 think I had to do with this? And I think he was thinking that 257 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:55.839 should we release it? I go, this should be the new U, 258 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:00.640 this theme of the series, and you should sing it. Long story short, 259 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:03.119 I got him a vocal coach. He didn't. He protested, but 260 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.160 we got him in the studio and he sang the theme song and it's still 261 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:11.799 there. So I got that going for me. Let's take it the brain. 262 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:17.640 We will be back in a bit and we will talk about some bad 263 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:27.200 celebrities out there, some good news about bad celebrities. Joe's go want live 264 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:33.640 from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank, all right, talking about 265 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:37.839 Hollywood, what do you think we do here? Cardi B? Have you 266 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:42.759 seen this on the YouTube or the TV? Cardi B? She's playing in 267 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:45.240 New York or in Las Vegas. I don't know how she's doing it. 268 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:48.440 Last weekend, it's like one hundred and seventeen out there. She's doing some 269 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:55.519 outdoor show and someone throws a drink on her, but I can't tell if 270 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:59.039 they were just it looked like a large Del Taco soda full of water and 271 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:03.200 ice, so look like but it could have been a sprite. And and 272 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:07.920 it hits her, goes all over her, and then she throws her microphone 273 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:11.759 just right at the guy. So that's big news. The thing I thought 274 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:15.000 was funny is how nobody mentioned that as soon as she threw the microphone at 275 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:22.440 her, at the at the at the perpetrator, somehow the she was still 276 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:33.519 singing. It didn't nothing changed. She's extremely talented, I gotta tell you. 277 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:37.000 So she was yelling at this person throwing it at but her vocals were 278 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:45.640 still permeating the air and perfect. It sounded just like the record. So 279 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:47.799 you might want to look at that on YouTube. It's kind of funny, 280 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:51.960 and there's no mention of it in the article. I think because she's a 281 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:56.640 victim here, she's beloved by the press, and she just got something thrown 282 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:00.000 at her, and so she throws the mic. Everybody. It's very satis 283 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.720 find watching her throw the mic at this idiot, and then you just don't 284 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:03.640 want to bring up like Hey, what the hell's gone on here? But 285 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:07.559 she lip sinking, but of course he's lip sinking. Um. The other 286 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:15.799 story about bad celebrities I have is, um they are Remember the show about 287 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:23.240 the Crizlies where the guy went to prison, Well, he's all the guys 288 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:26.640 that a lot of reality starts have gone to prison. One of the most 289 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:32.880 high profile and flamboyant of the reality bad boys is h is Todd Chrisley from 290 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:36.000 krizly knows best. I tuned into this show and I don't know why. 291 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:38.519 Why are you guys famous? I'm fine if someone's famous, even just they're 292 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:42.319 just famous for being famous. I don't understand them. The only that I 293 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:48.960 think the draw is how gay the husband is and how I could see elephant 294 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.279 in the room and the wife doesn't know this guy is gayer than Liberacci from 295 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:56.960 space and he it turns into like embezzling, and you know, these people 296 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:02.759 are trying to keep up a lifestyle. And this guy goes to present but 297 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:11.359 now he's petitioning because he says the um, the prison conditions are are just 298 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:15.680 terrible. You know, there's rats, and there's squalor, there's one hundred 299 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:21.680 and degree temperatures, No air conditioning, no nothing. Um, it's a 300 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:27.720 nightmare. But it's like this, you know, people don't feel sorry for 301 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:37.359 him, should they? Maybe, I mean maybe it's terrible, but you 302 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:38.839 know, he just kind of pops back up in the news and people hate 303 00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:45.160 him even more. There's a lot of Um I want to talk about the 304 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:52.880 Elon Musk trademark for the new Twitter using the word X yeah. Um. 305 00:23:52.839 --> 00:24:00.200 And it's it's hard to come up with a name that isn't going to be 306 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:04.960 challenged when you're if you're a high profile like that. They usually in the 307 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.599 trademark world, there's a bunch of people like somebody comes up with a trademark, 308 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:11.200 big thing, and then there's all these little people that are like, 309 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.799 hey, wait a second, so that was my trademark. Now, the 310 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:22.839 Trademark Office is supposed to be the guardians to say I cannot give you a 311 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:29.240 trademark that will harm another person's mark, and or they call it false designation 312 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:34.279 of origin. People might think twitter is comes from some other source because it's 313 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:40.519 also too close to the name of some other trademark, or people might think 314 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:45.400 that that the trademark that was already there is funded by Twitter and Elon musk, 315 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:49.359 so it can cause a lot of confusion in the marketplace. And remember, 316 00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:55.720 trademarks are are issued more for the protection of customers rather than the trademark 317 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:59.920 holders. Unlike the copyright. A copyright is issued to protect the author of 318 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.920 of a work and so something no one else copies them. The trademark is 319 00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:10.880 a little bit different. It's trademarking, you know, a service or a 320 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:15.640 product so that the consumers know where it comes from. And you can't have 321 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:22.319 a Disneyland in your backyard and put up a little roller coaster because people might 322 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:25.920 walk by and say, oh, Disneyland has a little satellite roller coaster over 323 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:29.039 here, and then you would they would get on that roller coaster and then 324 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:30.920 they would be flung into a ditch or something and they would go, well, 325 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:37.000 I thought Disneyland had safety standards. But the government has said, well, 326 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:41.279 no, we won't let people use the Disneyland trademark. So that's going 327 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:45.599 to come into play with this X thing. And there was one article that 328 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:49.640 just said there are like nine hundred products and services already with the X as 329 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:56.039 their trademark. Yeah, and it's so generic. At first, At first, 330 00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:00.240 I was like, what, it's the worst thing I've ever heard of. 331 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:07.079 Um, it's not it's not, in my opinion, not a very 332 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.319 intelligent move. No, I don't think so either. But then when you 333 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:14.160 hear he has all his other like SpaceX, and he has all these other 334 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:18.039 EX companies, and he's trying to consolidate it into an X thing, and 335 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:22.599 he thinks he can win and he can buy off people and he can fight, 336 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:27.279 and then then he has this EX world. I get that. So 337 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:33.119 we'll see it's gonna be a lot of trademark issues and a lot of um, 338 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:38.960 a lot of litigation and a lot of stories for Joiscalante Live from Hollywood. 339 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:42.440 Um, how how are we doing on time? My clocksmissed up? 340 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:45.960 We got about three minutes. Uh. Yeah. One point I want to 341 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:52.799 make is like that tweeting is something that's like a brand. It like y, 342 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:56.839 Twitter is a real, a world recognized brand. Tweeting, the act 343 00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:00.799 of boosting stuff and retweeting is some thing that you can go to other pages, 344 00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:04.880 other like sites that do some more things and you're still retweeting. It's 345 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:08.920 like something that's part of the brand. So anybody using X is going to 346 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:14.240 be tweeting and calling it tweets. Yeah, exactly and that the problem that 347 00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:18.119 I now see is like he took a brand that was world famous, wildly 348 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:22.039 profitable, and now it's like he's doing everything he can to disassociate from that. 349 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:32.240 Yeah, I'm I'm in agreement with you, but you know, we'll 350 00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:36.240 see it seems like one of those things where they retract it, like like 351 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:41.880 Coke new Coke. Um, So I think it's a new coke, is 352 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:44.519 what we can call it. A lot of people using they throw that term 353 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:48.039 around new Coke a lot for mistakes and businesses, some of them. Most 354 00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:51.359 of the time it doesn't apply. I think this applies. This is new 355 00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:56.359 Coke. Yeah, so, yeah, good for you. Here's another there's 356 00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:59.480 a piece of music news here. We're gonna do some music news in the 357 00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:03.920 next couple segment, but i'll preview this one. There was a there was 358 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:08.519 a legal or a city council vote in Irvine. That's you know, Orange 359 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:14.880 County, just south of Los Angeles, where the Irvine City Council killed the 360 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:19.400 negotiations with Live Nation to run their amphitheater in their city because they're building this 361 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:23.720 giant park in Irvine. It's going to be a bigger park than Central Park. 362 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:30.279 And it's got an amphitheater. And once this came out, it used 363 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:33.680 to be like these sweetheart deals or like a Live Nation comes in and says, 364 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:37.160 look, you guys don't know what you're doing. We'll run the amphitheater 365 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:41.480 and we will pay you rent three million a year in this case, and 366 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:44.400 we'll make forty five million a year out of it, or something like that. 367 00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:45.519 And the city council doesn't know what to do because they don't have to 368 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.039 run an amphitheater, and the city council members like they don't want a lot 369 00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:52.000 of work, so they just go for it. Here in Irvine, the 370 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:56.480 city council, like three of the members stood up and said, we're sick 371 00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:59.480 of this. We don't think this is right. And it was a it 372 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:06.279 was a weird, very very interesting battle. And now it's one of the 373 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:08.519 first places where Live Nation didn't get to like walk all over these people. 374 00:29:08.920 --> 00:29:12.599 And now they said we Live Nation said, well, we'll let other people 375 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:18.440 have concerts in this amphitheater. But in practice, what I understand is you 376 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.400 only get like Monday nights if you're some outside promoter or whatever, so you're 377 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:25.920 you're stuck with anything that Live Nation is going to give you, and they 378 00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:32.039 control all these tours and they put them in these amphitheaters and then there's no 379 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:34.680 one else is allowed to to and there's many other you know, promoters. 380 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:38.799 There's not just Live Nation in the world, and so you get you get 381 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.559 a pretty low variety of music if you in your town, if you're letting 382 00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:48.559 Live Nation run everything, and that's just like monopoly power anywhere. Um. 383 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.400 You know, I got nothing against Live Nation technically my brother in law owns 384 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.920 it. But it's just better for everybody. And I never got to see 385 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:03.160 it illustrated by until I saw this city council fight about like what it means 386 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:07.680 for a big giant company to own the amphitheater and not let other or pretend 387 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:12.480 to let other promoters use it. And it's not a good deal for the 388 00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:17.160 city because they're not they're getting cheated out of profits. And it's not a 389 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:22.960 good deal for these citizens who want more variety in the concerts that are coming, 390 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.480 because these people down an Irvine are like, they don't want to drive 391 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:29.200 to La to go to the Hollywood Bowl all the time to see the major 392 00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:33.240 acts, and that's a Holly Bowl is rough Greek Theater is rough. Get 393 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.000 the parking in and out, and so now they got their building they're trying 394 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:40.480 to build, you know, the city and Irvine Nervine's a masterplan community. 395 00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:44.880 It's just like you know, they practically speak esperanto there. It's so you 396 00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.920 know, plastic in a way, but it's plastic in a good way. 397 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:52.640 They built a city, pre planned, master planned city, and they want 398 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:57.680 they want their Hollywood Bowl. So now thanks to the vote this week, 399 00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.960 looks like they're going to get it. So if you see articles about the 400 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:07.119 Irvine Live Nation thing, you can read those and it's pretty interesting. All 401 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:11.000 right, how much time we got? Now break? Okay, we're gonna 402 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:38.519 take a break and come back with mar Joescalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Joe'scalante 403 00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:45.240 Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank. All right, a 404 00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:48.720 couple more things about Live Nation. We were talking about Live Nation and the 405 00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:55.279 Irvine fight in the last segment. Live Nation is soaring profits. So there's 406 00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:59.880 two articles that the surface this week. One was Live Nation revenue soars amidst 407 00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.319 wrong concert demand. This year, the company reported more than one hundred and 408 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.799 seventeen million tickets sold for Live Nation shows so far this year, which is 409 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:10.400 up twenty percent a year every year. And don't get me wrong, I 410 00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:16.200 play Live Nation shows all the time. They're always good, but I also 411 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:24.880 like the competition. But then they they're being investigated because by Congress, and 412 00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:30.440 they're investigating there. They're always under a surveillance because when they merge with Ticketmaster, 413 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:34.200 the government said, okay, you have to let us have a supervisor 414 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:39.000 that can watch you and make sure you don't commit anti trust violations that are 415 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:44.680 against the Sherman Anti Trust Act. And so they're always being monitored. But 416 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:50.160 then then the Swifties come into this. The Swifties are so mad at them. 417 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.440 You can now be a politician and get points by going after Live Nation 418 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:58.920 because they're blamed for all the Swifty stuff because of the ticket Master debacles, 419 00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:02.640 even though technically they're not even the promoter of these of these these uh Taylor 420 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:09.759 Swift concerts, but they get all the heat. Um so uh, they 421 00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:14.240 got this oversight and everything. But now the politicians are coming down on them 422 00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:19.039 because the Swifties are so mad that the ticket to buckles and how hard it 423 00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.400 is to get tickets and how expensive that that's the new they're the new punching 424 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:24.720 bag. Um. All right, we're gonna get to the strike in just 425 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:29.519 a minute. A couple other things. A security guard was beat to death 426 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:34.680 Saturday night Sunday morning at the Dragonfly. Um, did you hear about this 427 00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:39.160 beat today? Beat beat to death? It was a you know, kind 428 00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:49.440 of an indie hip hop rapper headlining at the at the Dragonfly. And uh, 429 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:53.400 if I was a Dragonfly, I wouldn't book indie hip hop, wouldn't 430 00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:58.400 do it. Um. These guy's a big swarm of people came at two 431 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:01.160 in the morning. All right, it's harassing the security guard two in the 432 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:06.119 morning. You know, nothing good goes on up two in the morning in 433 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:10.840 Hollywood and they beat the guy to death. That's so yeah, not cool. 434 00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:15.800 Um. Not only would I not go to some indie hip hop thing, 435 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.599 I've been to boo some indie I've been to hip hop riots that were 436 00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:23.239 in major venues and they're scary. But at an indie thing where there's you 437 00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:29.280 know, one security guy, I wouldn't go. Um. It's more dangerous 438 00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:35.239 than Tunetown. Did you hear that? Did you see these things with a 439 00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:37.800 Lana del Ray working at waffle house? I did. I thought that was. 440 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:42.119 I don't know what the deal is, but I always love it when 441 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:45.159 you see people that are like really well known celebrities doing stuff like that. 442 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:50.000 Yeah, so I thought it was at first. I believe did one hundred 443 00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:52.519 percent. You know, um Andy Coffin worked at Jerry's Delhi. It's probably 444 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:54.960 the most famous ones of these. While he was on the air on Taxi 445 00:34:55.400 --> 00:35:00.320 that was performance art. Lana del Ray is just cool to doing something weird. 446 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:02.159 I love it if it's true. But now I think it is true 447 00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:08.400 because it's now being reported. Also in alongside the Ed, she ran working 448 00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:17.119 at Chicago's iconic The Wiener's Circle in Chicago. Yeah, I would like to. 449 00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:22.320 I would like to get a job at Award Wieners in Disney's California Adventure. 450 00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:25.960 But no one would care. They would just say, Okay, yeah, 451 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:29.239 that's where you. I figured you'd end up here. You know. 452 00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:30.599 No one would say, like, huh, Joe, You're a giant celebrity 453 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:35.559 working at Award Wieners. They would just go, that's just kind of sad. 454 00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:39.079 So I probably won't do it. I would like to work at Disneyland 455 00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:43.079 doing the canoes, though I don't care if anyone thought it was sad when 456 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:52.960 I was doing that. Also, some news about floating around that Sean William 457 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:57.800 Scott, who played Stiffler on American Pie, only got eight thousand dollars for 458 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.719 that. I saw that, and so he about a car for five thousand, 459 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:06.599 and then you know, he was still working at the La Zoo as 460 00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:09.920 a churro guy. So I think this is floating around a show like how 461 00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:13.599 hard it is to be an actor and how it's not you know, they're 462 00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:15.320 not all rich. Even if some guy like Stiffler was a you know, 463 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:21.039 a sensation and that movie came out and hundreds of millions of dollars at the 464 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:22.920 box office and he got eight thousand dollars. But you think about it. 465 00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:25.719 You gotta think about this. You're making that movie, you got a budget, 466 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:28.800 you're trying to reduce the budget, and they say, hey, this 467 00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:32.840 movie is too expensive, go back and cut the budget. If you have 468 00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:37.079 someone like Stiffler who's never been in another movie, why would you pay him 469 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:39.679 anything other than sag scale? So you pay him sag scale. So it's 470 00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:46.599 not like they're cheating anybody that would just pay sag scale. So I guess 471 00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:50.679 the counter to that is, yes, Joe, well, that's what we're 472 00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:54.000 trying to do. We're trying to raise sag scale so Stiffler doesn't have to 473 00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:59.679 work at the tchurroplace for as long as he had to work at the churiplace. 474 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:07.400 So Sarah Silverman is upset because she's saying she's going after actors that are 475 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:13.000 working. There's still a few contracts that are not that are kind of different 476 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:17.119 that you can still work as an actor if you're on this indie contract, 477 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:24.599 for example, and then there's some you know, kind of reality shows that 478 00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:30.320 actors can still work and make money while the strike's going on. Sarah Silverman 479 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:31.199 is saying, no, no, no, no, don't do any of 480 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:35.960 that. We all have to be united. And if we're not united, 481 00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.800 it's never gonna work because you're gonna make these And there's some famous actors I 482 00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:44.719 guess that are in these indie films they're working right now. And Sarah Silverman 483 00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:47.280 said her and her wealthy friends have turned down all the offers they've gotten, 484 00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:51.320 and the other people have said, hey, I gotta make a living, 485 00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:55.239 and my guild, the Screen Actors Guild, said I could be in this 486 00:37:55.280 --> 00:38:00.079 movie and she's saying, well, shame on the Screen Actors Guild. We 487 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:04.599 all you know, she's this hardcore. You know there's different levels of union 488 00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:08.960 labor protesting. She is hardcore. She says, she's really pissed. I 489 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:15.440 believe her. I'm just glad I'm not somewhere where I'm really pissed. I'm 490 00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:20.159 in the Screen Actor's Guild. I would like these guys to make progress and 491 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:27.239 get more money for the actors. But I'm not really pissed. And you 492 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:34.079 know, it's just me. But it's the union that's allowing them to do 493 00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:37.679 this. Another thing about the strike right now that's going on. We're approaching 494 00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:43.519 the ninety day mark. The ninety day mark is in many of the agreements 495 00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:46.719 with the writers who have overall deals, and this is gonna this is like 496 00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:53.840 tragic for a lot of them. An overall deal in the TV writing business 497 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:57.599 is like the holy Grail. It's what you get after you've had a few 498 00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:00.119 hits or many heads and then you say we're gonna make an overall deal with 499 00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:02.719 you. I'm going to guarantee you four million dollars a year and you're gonna 500 00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:07.079 write scripts and pitch them to us. Exclusively, and we're going to every 501 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:09.639 time you write one, we're gonna say, okay, we're gonna knock one 502 00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:15.119 hundred grand off you wrote another one, and if you wrote so many that 503 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:16.800 got more than four million, then we'd start paying your cash. But we're 504 00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:21.360 going to advance you four million dollars a year. That'd be a small one. 505 00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:24.599 That's not even a big one. We're gonna keep paying you this. 506 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:28.440 And let's say our deal is we're going to guarantee you for two years. 507 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:35.559 Now, there's a clause in there called a force massure clause which we have. 508 00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:39.559 We have to pay you this unless there's a force massure, meaning like 509 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:45.079 a pandemic, an act of god, something like a writer strike. So 510 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:49.480 after ninety days they can just say, hey, we're terminating. You're overall 511 00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:52.840 theal and we're not paying you anymore. And will they will? Will you 512 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:59.400 get it back after the writers strike happens. Fat chance. So that's like 513 00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:04.920 coming up a first. That's a rough one. Yeah. The other striking 514 00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:13.079 news that we we're talking about during the break was the the accusations by the 515 00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:20.559 writers of the Actors Strike strikers that NBC Universal has trimmed to their trees. 516 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:24.719 They have denuded these trees that used to provide shade for the it's for the 517 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:30.280 that's right outside our studio. There's these big trees all up and down, 518 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:35.559 the really old trees all up and down the boulevard, and they provided shade 519 00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:39.480 to the strikers and they have been denuded, so there will be no shade 520 00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:47.119 for you. NBC Universal says this is just routine maintenance. But there's an 521 00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:52.159 LA official saying he's going to look into the matter. What do you think 522 00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:55.199 see him? Well, we definitely got to see it. Apparently they had 523 00:40:55.239 --> 00:41:00.920 already scheduled the tree trimming ahead of time, so it something that was already 524 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:05.519 there. But yeah, with the weather as as brutal as it is, 525 00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:08.719 it was the one thing that offered the a lot of the protesters or some 526 00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:15.440 kind of shelter from the heat, and obviously the people at NBC Universal had 527 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:19.119 no problem with them sweating it out. Yeah, it's very interesting. I 528 00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:22.960 would agree with you that would like it's i mean, the tree maintenance. 529 00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:27.800 It's like, you know, probably scheduled the routinely, you know, a 530 00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:30.000 year in advance or something. But you know, so someone could have said, 531 00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:36.880 hey, let's postpone that so that the strikers can have shade, but 532 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:39.199 that would never happen, so they just let it roll. So I don't 533 00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:45.920 think that investigation is going to uncover anything, but you know, officials, 534 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:51.440 city officials and politicians certainly love to to get involved and stuff like that. 535 00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:57.639 Have you been down there. You're not into guild. No, I'm not 536 00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:02.159 union, but I've driven by it and I agree that they should get paid 537 00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:07.320 their fair share considering how much money is flowing into streaming services and stuff like 538 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:12.039 that. I'm with you, Sam, all right. So you strikers out 539 00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:17.480 there ain't tough, and uh I will leave you. It's just a taste 540 00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:21.280 of the greatest song ever written.